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" McClean said the Red Cross has an important role to play in efforts to halt child slavery because of its strong networks of volunteers and grassroots communication . Brazil is a world center of such triumphs as child slavery , with some 7 million children working as slaves and prostitutes , exploited , overworked , deprived of health and education , " or just deprived of their childhood , " an International Labor Organization study estimates . They 'll be in costume in front of the Global Exchange store between noon and 2pm , handing out Fair Trade chocolate to anyone who signs a postcard to Nestle , asking the company to take action against child slavery by purchasing cocoa beans from Fair Trade cocoa cooperatives . Marx goes on to remind us that ' while the cotton industry introduced child slavery into England , in the United States it gave the impulse for the transformation of the earlier , more or less patriarchal slavery ' into a system of commercial exploitation ' . While the U.S. chocolate industry has agreed to a protocol to end child slavery by 2005 , it does n't go far enough , says the Global Exchange . But those who monitor child slavery around the world , and others who scrutinize the labor practices of American companies with factories abroad , insist that chocolate companies have failed to take serious steps to end the abhorrent labor practices . Though many US chocolate companies , including M & M / Mars , have signed an agreement to work towards ending child slavery , these plans leave poverty untouched and make continued slavery a possibility because they do n't insure fair wages for adult workers . " It further notes that slavery , particularly child slavery , was on the rise in 2003 . Instead of practising " child slavery , " as it is called , I saw to it that young people from territories endangered by the fighting were granted protection and special care . The nation-wide interest aroused by our papers on the slums of our great cities , the evils of child slavery , and kindred subjects , suggested a far-reaching social awakening , and from many prominent thinkers and workers , as well as from a great number of our subscribers , came letters expressing the wish that social groups or clubs might be formed in cities and towns , for the diffusion of moral , social , and economic truth , and that would assist in uniting the conscience element of every community . Some US Chocolate companies including M & M / Mars have pledged to work towards ending child slavery by 2005 . Some US Chocolate companies including Nestle have pledged to work towards ending child slavery by 2005 . The companies ' stated goal was to rid the industry of child slavery by July 2005 , at which time their products would be certified as " slave free .