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In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report on labour conditions around the world [53] in which a List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor mentioned five countries where the cocoa industry used child labour, and two countries where the cocoa industry used child labour and forced labour. [54]
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In 2009, Mars and Cadbury joined the Rainforest Alliance to fight against child labor. By 2020, these major chocolate manufacturers hoped to completely eradicate child labor on any plantations from which they purchase their cocoa. [7] As of 2019, there are still 1.56 million child laborers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. [8]
Boy collecting cocoa after beans have dried. The Harkin–Engel Protocol, [a] sometimes referred to as the Cocoa Protocol, is an international agreement aimed at ending the worst forms of child labor (according to the International Labour Organization's Convention 182) and forced labor (according to ILO Convention 29) in the production of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate.
U.S. customs authorities have asked cocoa traders to report where and when they encounter child labour in their supply chains in top grower Ivory Coast, three industry sources said, following ...
July 26 – United States – Taconic State Parkway crash. A minivan driver travelled the wrong way for 2.7 km (1.7 mi) on the Taconic State Parkway before crashing head-on into an SUV, killing eight and injuring three. [72] July 27 – Tanzania – A bus collided with a lorry after bursting a tire in Korogwe, killing 28. [73]
The fatal crash occurred Saturday at about 8:15 p.m. on South Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas, police said in a statement. ... A vehicle involved in the alleged street racing ...
The Texas Highway Patrol is a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety and is the largest state-level law enforcement agency in the U.S. state of Texas.The patrol's primary duties are enforcement of state traffic laws and commercial vehicle regulation, but it is a fully empowered police agency with authority to enforce criminal law anywhere in the state.