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Petition update, 15 July 2008

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At least 12.3 million people are victims of forced labour worldwide. Of these 2.4 million are as a result of human trafficking. Human trafficking is now the second largest source of income for organised crime, exceeded only by arms and drugs trafficking. People are trafficked into prostitution, begging, forced labour, military service, domestic service, forced illegal adoption, forced marriage etc. They are recruited in in a number of ways, including abduction, being sold by their parents, being recruited after they've run away from home - and being sold to traffickers by orphanages or care homes.

One form of trafficking is the use of children to harvest the cocoa beans on farms in Cote D'Ivoire. (The Ivory Coast) 50% of the worlds cocoa is produced on the Ivory Coast, by child slaves who are beaten if they don't work hard enough and who exist on meagre food rations. These children are likely to be working to make your chocolate.

If the UK were to ban cocoa imports produced from slave labour then the trafficking of these children would stop.

Please, please help stop child slavery by signing this petition.

Current signatories

Julia Asfield, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Catherine Hill
• Rob Ager
• D Porritt
• Sandra Dean
• Sandy
• Patricia Hunt
• Sylvia Foley
• L Rout
• Jennifer Payne
• Helen Payne
• Angela Sweeney
• carole
• Wendy Nasralla
• Philip Glover
• Annette Jones
• Jason Jeffery
• Dick King
• mairi mackechnie
• Richard James
• Andrew Main
• John-Paul Ashfield
• A. Hunt
• Deborah
• M. Flynn
• Susan Kendrick
• Jacqueline Dowden
• LAdy Lorna C Gadd
• Maria Allen
• Michael Hicks
• Fay
• Michael Gould
• Sarah Lewin
• jonathan teuma
• K Davies
• Prabal Ray
• Claire Flynn
• S. Kinsella
• Clare McLean
• Jacqueline Hadel James
• J.Flynn
• C. Flynn
• C. Allen
• M.W.Flynn
• R.Allen
• kvrowell
• Geoff Steele
• andras lucan
• Paul Molyneux
• Louise Drew
• heather Johnson
• David Arrowsmith
• Robin Clayton
• denise wootten
• Becky Canning
• D. Flynn
• A. Flynn
• David Carter
• SEBASTIAN J E DE CARSS
• hanna benney
• Megan Campbell
• Christine Munn
• gabriel anguiano
• E Stewart
• Adam Gale
• D Parkin
• kellie Walton
• Martyn Harris
• Timothy Bemrose
• Donna Wilber
• Peter Nobbs
• Lisette van Heerden
• Mary Woodley
• Liane Beech-Gruneberg
• maninder
• S L Gorrigan
• Katherine Johnson
• Cathrine Thompson
• Jade B
• J.Tonberg
• Mr.Graeme.G.M.Gillon
• Angelina Watret
• cheryl paschally-masaga
• Gregory Mills
• Jacob Mahal
• Kim Wilkins
• Esther Da Costa
• Jackie Gatenby
• samantha Yates
• Joel Hunt
• Peter Ord
• Yvonne & Sharon Neblett
• D. Kaur
• nicola woods
• Ray Coote
• Robert Leiser
• stephen keen
• joyce giblin
• Brian Whyte
• Mark Williams
• Brian Varney
• Dan Wood
• HEIDI GRIFFIN
• Caroline Elliker
• Pauline Doidge
• lorraine bail
• R F Williams
• Valerie Wakefield
• Lina Drimas
• Lucy Matthews
• Carrianne Williams
• M Hutchinson
• josephine T Parkin
• m a hutchinson
• Gavin Davis
• kate mullins
• Kate Harding
• Ben Towers
• Yvonne Vidal
• Matthew Gavigan(Liverpool)
• Mike Woodhouse
• Letitia Roach
• Lindsey Day
• Anna Sartory
• Elaine Clarke
• fiona ferguson
• Alice Angliss
• Kathryn Bamber
• Roger Smith
• Malc Seaman
• Margaret
• Sarah Joy
• Sophie
• Lynne Barnes
• Keith Barker
• paul salmon
• Guy Baker
• Jonathan Dilks
• Ian Tovey
• David Gledhill
• Damian Rhodes
• Muhammad Raja
• Katie Ricks
• D'reen Walker
• Inga Ashworth
• Stephen Dixon
• Natalie Tatum
• Denise Morris
• Giuseppe Bacchetti
• Sarah Layzell
• Nancy Borchard
• Mauree Erdwin
• Lynn N S Lansbury
• jennifer broadbent
• Rosalind Haskins
• Helen Gilroy
• zoe harwood
• Anne Graves
• Albertina McNeill
• sheila j smith
• Anne Louise Avery
• Mark McLauchlan
• Suresh Karadia
• eve harrison
• L Dursen
• Helena Kiely
• Richard Barber
• Keith Rumley
• Kym Stokes
• Becky Martin
• M Mills
• Gillian Hill
• Leanne Westerside
• Sam Pacheco
• janet wooodward
• Faye Love
• Alastair Binnie
• -
• Kim Trill
• Martin Layton
• Mark Woodbine
• David Hinder
• jacqueline laidlaw
• dorothy
• Adam Campbell
• Sharon C
• Kirsten Bradley
• nicole bennett
• Karen Anne Watt
• Thomas Henry
• Glenn Houghton
• karen godwin
• Michelle Grey
• Rosanna Howlett
• Jim Pye
• Julia Baddeley
• Ciaran Beale
• Sarah Brown
• Daniel Ankers
• T Saunders
• Sarah Bunce
• LYNSEY NELSON
• Heather Pettican
• Lee Edwardes
• Lynda Dearlove
• Janet Dixon
• June Rogers
• S.P Beaird esq
• Denyse Mohan
• Lindsey Sheehan
• juliet roberts
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Arthur Pearsall
• Kay Kelly
• peter henderson
• DIANNE NICHOLSON
• Dr Ghulam Ashraf
• Terry Evans
• ALLEN KILPATRICK
• Samuel Perry
• Joanna Douglas
• Helen Griffiths
• And do something about the poverty which forces these children into slavery
• Maurice Regan
• Esther Angel
• Alexandra Owen
• s wainwright
• Christopher Owen Beale
• E Sanders
• Joseph McGuire
• Samantha D
• Jay Mitton
• Mark Bridgeman
• Stephen Forrest
• Edward Burls
• Miss Ryan
• Joshua Westmoreland
• Rebecca Birch
• Mark Haynes
• Rachael Melanie Griffiths
• Anne Ward
• Marie Christiansen
• Giulia Pratico
• Angela J
• Matthew Fyles
• Nick Winser
• John Gordon Church, MBE
• Myra Rowland
• Jonathan Cordes
• Able Cadet Glenn Brown
• Cara Phillips
• chris causer
• meg Hailes
• Andrew Cawdell
• Julie Mathews
• Joela
• anju Kathuria
• Daisy Sands
• Kieran Macdonald Hall
• Cecilia Karlsson
• liz humby
• Jennifer Goss
• Ange Zammit
• samuel masih
• tina.holroyd
• richard white
• Paul Rees
• Sam Campbell
• stu leather
• Rob Levy
• Susan Hall
• Jennifer Austin
• martyn dickers
• PETER HOWARD