The link between the Western love of chocolate and the ongoing crisis in Côte d’Ivoire has not been underscored enough by the major media...Many thousands of children labor in the cocoa plantations of present-day Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire...[R]eports have repeatedly surfaced about children...who are smuggled...[from] Mali...and sold to cash-strapped cocoa growers. Working for little or no pay, they are often poorly fed and housed, subjected to abuse, receive no education and face hazardous work...By supporting...the Harkin-Engel Protocol, industry agreed to certify that chocolate had been produced without the ‘worst forms of child labor’ by 1 July 2005. The promised certification scheme has never been established. After moving the goalposts several times, participants agreed in September 2010 that by 2020 they would seek to reduce the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa supply chain by 70%... Most recently, in the standoff following the recent presidential elections, the beleaguered administration of Laurent Gbagbo is reportedly drawing on cocoa revenues as other sources of financing are cut off by the international community. [Refers to Mars, Nestlé, Cargill, Kraft, Cadbury (part of Kraft), Green & Black's (part of Kraft)]