Harkin in Africa this week for visit about child labor in cocoa production January 10, 2008
Posted by John in Business, Political.Tags: Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Bernie Sanders, child labor, cocoa industry, Elliot Engel, human rights, Tom Harkin
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From Voice of America:
U.S. Senators Tom Harkin and Bernie Sanders and Congressman Elliot Engel are in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, for a two-day visit related to child labor in cocoa production. They are set to meet with the government, industry representatives, aid organizations, and cocoa-producing families in Ivory Coast, before heading to Ghana. …
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and New York Congressman Elliot Engel have proposed a plan to help consumers know when their sweet treats were produced without the worst forms of child labor.
Now Harkin and Engel, along with their colleague, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, have come to West Africa, to see how things are going. …
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