Child Slavery In Africa

3,886,565 children between 4-19 years are engaged in extreme and horrendous child slavery, which counts to 6/10 children only in Africa, estimated by UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Could you ever imagine your four year old son is being send away from your beloved home, into a risky business of child slavery? In Africa; Guinea-Bissau and Ghana, this is very unexceptional, where modern slavery has soaked into their destitute culture. Parents are guaranteed into a musky trap of receiving strict religious education and annual compensations while marabouts traffic their kids into the aphotic life of slavery. Guinea-Bissau and Ghana are allocated among the world’s least developed nations, both countries entrust farming (52%) and fishing (38%) productions.

The majority of these victims are boys called the ‘talibe’ since they are religious students as they practice Sunni, Anism or Islam. These victims are being trafficked into cotton fields by ‘marabouts’ which are religious instructors. However, the NGO reports that Bissau-Guinean who perform domestic labor before the age of 18 within their country have a great chance to be a victim of being trafficked into cotton fields. The following human rights are highly violated by Guinea-Bissauan and Ghanaian authorities; article 4,5,24 and 26. An estimated 98% of the world’s cotton farms are currently working and living the rapid developing world. The farmers of these farms are responsible of 75% of global cotton production, however they are members of the agricultural poor farmers and working on small cotton plots. Resulting forced child slavery, an obvious violation of the Worst Forms of Child Labor. These victims are intimidated, abused, exploited and working with extreme pressure every day for the world’s cotton production which is worth an estimated of at least US$32 billion. “If we want to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, greater effort needs to be made to address child labor in agriculture.” Stated by the International Program on the Elimination of Child Slavery (IPEC). As this production supports brands

Over 30,000 children are working as fishers or Kayaye to transport the fishing production around the lake Volta. Ghanaian authorities are abridging articles 4,5,24 and 26, however no action to this has occurred. The International Organization of Migration (IOM) reports numerous death of victims trafficked for hazardous forced slavery in this industry (390 in 2013). Child trafficking is unbridled in fishing communities along Ghana’s Lake Volta however the organization has tried to reintegrate, rescue and rehabilitate however this had no success. According to the IOM these children are laboring for fishermen on 5 islands in the territory of the Kete Krachi. Statistics collected from the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) indicated that child slavery in Ghana’s Lake Volta was rated 3rd most profitable illicit business venture. As fishing production is responsible of 38% of Ghana’s economy, many workers are desired. However, when including children who have not full extension to speak up for their rights, there needs to be a call for action since no one has the right to be held into slavery and it should be prohibited in all their forms. Ghana’s next generation has lost their human rights and freedoms for which reason their development and survival is