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[DOC] The Harkin-Engel Protocol: Ten Years On
...[How] effective has the [Harkin-Engel] Protocol [on child labour in cocoa production] been in combating these abuses?...[The] chocolate industry has done little to translate words and preliminary data into the meaningful practical actions mandated by the Protocol to end the [worst forms of child labour]...Perhaps the single most anticipated result of the Protocol is the area where there has been the least progress on implementation by the chocolate industry: the creation of a product certification scheme...[The] industry-favored view of certification simply does not constitute a product certification system in satisfaction of...the Protocol and altogether avoids serious action to target and eradicate demand for cocoa from suppliers using abusive labor practices...[A]buses of the sort that inspired outrage and generated demand for the creation of the Protocol persist...[It] is the public sector that traditionally has played the role of defining, monitoring and enforcing the boundaries of appropriate behavior...