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Date of publication: February 11, 2007

Source: Sunday Business Post (Ireland)

Author: Jennifer O'Leary

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...‘‘I tried to run away, but I was caught . . . as punishment, they cut my feet, and I had to work for weeks while my wounds healed. I stayed in a large room with other Malian children from a neighbouring plantation.”

This was how a young boy from Mali, said he was lured to a cocoa farm in the Ivory Coast.

This was how he described his plight on videotape to a US court. He was one of the plaintiffs in a 2005 case brought by a US advocacy organisation, the International Labour Rights Fund...