INTERVIEW-Cocoa users must help fight child labour - Ivory Coast

Date of publication: April 7, 2006

Source: Reuters

Author: Pascal Fletcher

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In mid-2005, the Washington-based International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court against three companies -- Nestle , Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill -- it says share responsibility in the trafficking, torture and forced labour of children who cultivate cocoa in Ivory Coast.

The three companies have contested the case.

N'Djore said one of the major factors behind the use of child labour by cocoa farmers was non-attendance at school...