NEW ON TV: The CNN Freedom Project – 'Chocolate's Child Slaves'

The excellent CNN International correspondent David McKenzie has been working on a special documentarry for the CNN Freedom Project and viewers will be able to see Chocolate’s Child Slaves on CNN International on Friday 20 January at 8pm (West African time).

A decade after promising to end the child labour in the cocoa plantations in West Africa, David McKenzie investigates. His shocking investigation takes him deep into the heart of the Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cocoa producer, to find out what progress has been made.

CNN International discovers an industry in which very little has changed. Chocolate’s Child Slaves uncovers a human trafficking network and farmers using child labour.

Chocolate’s Child Slaves will be repeated on Saturday 21 January (2pm WAT), 22 January (2am, 7:30am, 10:30am, 9:30pm WAT), 24 January (4am, 10:30am, 5:30pm WAT).