date:May 15, 2012
voire and over 997,000 kids in Ghana were found to be working on cocoa-related activities in 2007/2008, according to Tulane University.
The ILO/ICI project will try to sensitise farmers on child-labour and develop Community Action Plans designed to keep kids in school and out of harmful work.
EU resolution
The new project comes soon after the European Parliament gave its consent to the 2010 International Cocoa Agreement and passed a resolution on child labour in the cocoa sector in March.