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Tackling child labour on cocoa farms

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Parents from rural communities in Ivory Coast are being encouraged to send their children to school instead of letting them work in cocoa farms. As Grace Pascoe reports it's all part of a government initiative to end child labour.

Added on the 12/01/2015 14:45:50 - Copyright : Reuters EN

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