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13 Sep 2010

Author:
Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers [USA]

U.S., industry pledge millions to end child labor in cocoa harvests

The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor - some of it forced and dangerous - in [Ivory Coast and Ghana] where much of the world's cocoa is grown. "If there's one thing people around the world share in common it's our love of chocolate. But it is a bitter reality that the main ingredient in chocolate, cocoa, is produced largely by child labor," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa...The new initiative will rely on Ghana and Ivory Coast for enforcement. It doesn't include any certification program to assure people who buy chocolate that it isn't produced by children...[Hershey has] issued its first corporate social responsibility report...Critics said the Hershey report failed to show it's making any progress on child labor.

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