Trafficked Children On African Cocoa Plantations

EDM number 129 in 2008-09, proposed by Mike Hancock on 04/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Human rights and International trade.

That this House notes with concern that the trafficking of children is a growing problem in the production of cocoa and that at least 15,000 Malian children have been trafficked to work on cocoa and coffee plantations in Cote d'Ivoire; welcomes the UK's support for the relevant International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conventions and ILO programmes elsewhere; notes with dismay the lack of progress by the cocoa industry in implementing a monitoring and certification process and its inability to be able to guarantee the absence of trafficked labour on cocoa production lines; and calls on the Government and the cocoa industry to provide a traffick free guarantee for all cocoa products, as suggested by the Stop the Traffick coalition.

This motion has been signed by a total of 59 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Mike Hancock	04/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Keith Vaz	08/12/2008	Leicester East	Labour	Seconded
Evan Harris	08/12/2008	Oxford West & Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Bob Spink	08/12/2008	Castle Point	Independent	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	08/12/2008	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Glenda Jackson	08/12/2008	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Seconded
Mark Williams	08/12/2008	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Daniel Rogerson	08/12/2008	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	08/12/2008	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	08/12/2008	Newport West	Labour	Signed
David Drew	08/12/2008	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2008	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	08/12/2008	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2008	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Meale	08/12/2008	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	08/12/2008	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Sandra Gidley	09/12/2008	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Angus MacNeil	09/12/2008	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Scottish National Party	Signed
Mark Hunter	09/12/2008	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Devine	09/12/2008	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	09/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Durkan	09/12/2008	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Andrew Dismore	09/12/2008	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	09/12/2008	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Lynne Jones	09/12/2008	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Paul Holmes	09/12/2008	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dennis Skinner	09/12/2008	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	10/12/2008	Liverpool, West Derby	Independent	Signed
Jo Swinson	10/12/2008	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	10/12/2008	Dunfermline & Fife West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dai Davies	10/12/2008	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
Janet Dean	10/12/2008	Burton	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	10/12/2008	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	10/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	10/12/2008	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
William McCrea	10/12/2008	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Nick Harvey	10/12/2008	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Simpson	10/12/2008	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
Michael Penning	11/12/2008	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
John Hemming	11/12/2008	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Battle	11/12/2008	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	11/12/2008	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Brian Jenkins	11/12/2008	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Harry Cohen	15/12/2008	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	15/12/2008	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	15/12/2008	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Paul Truswell	16/12/2008	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	16/12/2008	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Chris McCafferty	12/01/2009	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Roger Williams	26/01/2009	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andy Reed	05/03/2009	Loughborough	Labour	Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	12/03/2009	Thurrock	Labour	Signed
Norman Baker	17/03/2009	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kim Howells	19/03/2009	Pontypridd	Labour	Signed
Eddie McGrady	20/03/2009	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	22/04/2009	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Simon Hughes	11/11/2009	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Wright	Unknown			Withdrawn
Michael Jabez Foster	Unknown			Withdrawn

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