Child Labour In Ghana

In fact, just very few farms have improved and the less industry’s commitment to

achieve. Child labour continues to be a problem in Ghana. There are 80% to 90 % cocoa

comes from small, family-run farms. Many of cocoa farmers are poor, often with little or

no education, and their cocoa crop is their main economic of income, and most

agricultural work is carried out in the countryside. They faced with the harsh realities of

rural poverty and lack of infrastructure, Also, Ghanaian government took over the cocoa

monopoly, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has a monopoly on all trade involving

cocoa in Ghana 20 , it just offer a fixed price to the farmer and usually farmers get only the

lower price for their cocoa production . Therefore,

In the international level, there also have other NGOs against the child labour, like the

International Labour Rights Fund (ILRF) 24 and Global Exchange 25 have worked together

to raise the awareness about the exploitation of child labour in the Africa. They have do a

lot of investigation, research and advocacy relative to the child labour issues, and

lobbying the government and chocolate industries which try to trigger people's attention

to eliminate the child labour in the world. As an example, Global exchange has launched

many Fair Trade Campaigns try to force the entire cocoa industry to stop using child

labour and start using Fair Trade certified cocoa. Also, they would take the legal actions

as channels to protect the children rights. In 2004, ILRF, along with Global Exchange,

have been pursuing a parallel legal strategy at the Court of International Trade intended

to force the US Customs Service to enforce its own rules and regulations prohibiting the

importation of any good produced by forced child labor. 26 27

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Conclusion

Economic globalization advocated the market-based economies with less the state

control. In developing countries became less anatomy to exert the power to control over

their economies, even have less capacity to create the regulations in the protection in

environment and human rights of workers, the exploitation of child labour may be a

growing phenomenon with economic activities in developing countries. NGOs play as an

important role in responses to those adverse effects by economic globalization in the

world.

More importantly, NGOs has established a good relationship with both local and

international NGOs, they are involving the issue of child rights and child labour

proactively, as the coalition, has built up a worldwide network of NGOs. These NGOs

brought different strengths and areas of expertise 33 .Local NGOs worked toward the regional community, to better understand the