In September 2010, the Government of Côte d’Ivoire, the Government of Ghana, the United States Department of Labor...Senator Tom Harkin, Representative Eliot Engel, and the International Chocolate and Cocoa Industry...joined as partners under the Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol…to tackle the pressing problem of child labor in the cocoa sector…[T]hese entities committed to the goal of reducing…child labor…in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana by 70 percent in aggregate by the year 2020….[T]hey have joined together to release this report…to inform the broader public of actions taken to date and progress made towards the stated goal.