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Article: Citing child slavery, labor-rights group asks U.S. to ban cocoa imports.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- May 30, 2002
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WASHINGTON _ A labor-rights advocacy group asked the U.S. government Thursday to ban imports of cocoa from Ivory Coast, saying a new investigation revealed that little had been done to stop the use of child slave labor in its harvesting.
The group, the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund, asked the Customs Service to invoke a 1997 law that prohibits imports of any good "produced or manufactured with bonded child labor." The group said the only cocoa shipments from Ivory Coast that should be allowed into the United States were those that had been independently certified as produced without child slave labor.
In a 2001 series of articles, ...