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African Cocoa Picked By Indentured Child Labor

Imported Into This Country, United States Customs

Service Breaks America Trade Law with

Terry Collingsworth, Director of the International Labor Rights Fund




The International Labor Rights Fund plans to file suit against the U.S. Customs Service for breaking American trade law and allowing African cocoa picked by indentured child labor to be imported into this country. The International Labor Rights

Fund has grown impatient with the Customs Service for failing to investigate accusations that cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast use slave or indentured child labor. Cocoa beans are purchased by large international food firms like Nestle, Cargill and Archer

Daniels Midland Company