Global Supply Chains: Where Are Children's Rights?

Now come back: many holidays are just around the corner. And of course everyone likes to give or receive presents. Whether there are little touches like Chocolate, but also Clothing or Smartphones are - the questions where the products used come from, who makes them and under what conditions they are made, are rarely answered in full. The global supply chains are widely ramified and often not completely understandable.

And that although there are quite a few examples of Human and children's rights violations in the worldwide movement of goods. For example child labor in Cocoa sector. For example unauthorized Use of pesticides on plantationswhich can lead to long-term pollution of the environment and damage to the health of workers. Or exploitative conditions in the textile industry, which pays wages below the subsistence level.

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