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14 Feb 2005

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CBS/AP

The Dark Side Of Chocolate

[US] Rep. Eliot Engel...and [US] Sen. Tom Harkin...said the industry told them it's backing away from a deal to fix [the child labour] problem. But Chocolate Manufacturers Association spokeswoman Susan Smith insists the industry will meet a July deadline to address its child labor practices...Harkin said...human rights activists estimate that as many as 90 percent of cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast use forced child labor.

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