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Article

8 Aug 2002

Author:
UN Wire

WEST AFRICA: Institute Says Most Child Cocoa Workers Not Trafficked

...The institute studied at least 1,000 households in each of four countries: Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire...The report indicates that about one-tenth of 130,000 children working in the Ivorian cocoa industry have no family ties to their employers, adding that under 1 percent of Ivorian farmers acknowledged employing full-time permanent child workers.