UM International Justice Mission hosts documentary screening

The Ole Miss International Justice Mission is showing “The Dark Side of Chocolate,” a documentary that exposes the use of child slavery in the chocolate industry.

The documentary is led by a Danish journalist who goes to Africa and investigates child trafficking and child labor at cocoa plantations. 

The movie is an hour long and includes a drawing to win fair-trade chocolate prizes. 

“I don’t think people realize that human trafficking and child slavery are as big of a problem as they are in the world today,” said senior Emily Laird. 

“And I don’t think they realize that human trafficking and child slavery most likely went into the making of the chocolate they are eating.” 

Laird started the International Justice Mission chapter at Ole Miss after watching an International Justice Mission Speaker at the Wesley Foundation, a Methodist campus ministry.Laird plans on doing her senior thesis on the International Justice Mission and found the movie on a Web site for a similar organization. 

Admission to the film is free, but donations to the International Justice Mission will be accepted at the screening. The screening takes place tonight at 5:45 p.m. in Bishop Hall 209, the auditorium.