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The Dark Side of Chocolate

The documentary is all about the exploitation and slave-trading of African children to harvest

chocolate or cacao for the benefit of others. Based on what I have watched, there are fourpersonas that have an obligation to those children involved in the documentary 1) Theirparents whom should be the one responsible for their needs and take good care of them; 2)The state or the government whom is in-charge of knowing this kind of event and also toprevent or put actions to this kind of exploitation to African children; 3) The supplier whomshould have the knowledge of having child laborers on their plantation and be the one to reportthis event to the government to prevent or minimize the exploitation and slave-trading ofAfrican children; and 4) The company whom should be aware of what is happening on theirsuppliers side or how do these cacaos shipped to them have been processed (if these were

processed by those workers of the plantation or by those child laborers (smuggled) whom aredeprived of those rights as children of Africa). These four (4) personas I have mentioned who Iconsider to have obligations are based on what is my understanding on the documentary. Forme, as per article 1156 states, obligation is a juridical necessity to give, to do or not to do, all

of them (parents, state or government, company and supplier) has this obligation to do which isto protect the child from exploitation and slave-trading in Africa especially the parents of thesechildren and also the government or the state who should investigate regarding this matter inorder to stop or lessen this kind of happening. The company who are involved with this mattershould allot some time to investigate or to know if such things are happening on the plantation

where they get their supply because they have signed the Cocoa Protocol in 2001 promising towork for a total eradication of child labor in the cocoa sector by 2008. These four have civilobligations because they have a duty to protect the welfare of the children involved and areliable because they have caused damages to the children involve who are usually 11-to-16-years-old but sometimes younger, forced to do hard manual labor a week under hazardousworking conditions, paid nothing, receive no education, barely fed, beaten regularly, and areoften viciously beaten if they try to escape.

As a student who has watched this documentary, I do also have an obligation. As to jurisdiction,I have no obligation because I am not part of the scope or I am not within the involved place

which is Africa but as a human being who has a well developed conscience, feelings of guiltand shame leading to remorse , I do have a moral obligation. As to moral obligation per se, I doconsider the right and the wrong. As what I have watched, there is a wrong act done thatcaused harm to the children involved. With this, informing my family, friends, colleagues andother people regarding the documentary I have watched entails a moral duty because I do feelsorry for those children abused and deprived of their right as children of a state. For me, there

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should be a conscientious duty with regards to this situation in order for other people to beenlightened and speak up their minds as what I have done.