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The Harkin-Engel Protocol, commonly referred to as the Cocoa Protocol is an international agreement aimed at ending child labour in the production of cocoa. It was signed in September 2001. In 2001, reports of human trafficking and physical abuse in West African cocoa farming raised concerns. Later that year, U.S. Representative Eliot Engel introduced a legislative amendment to fund the development of a "no child slavery" label for chocolate products sold in the United States. The American senator Tom Harkin, a leader in the movement to end abusive child labor worldwide, became involved.

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The Harkin-Engel Protocol, commonly referred to as the Cocoa Protocol is an international agreement aimed at ending child labour in the production of cocoa. It was signed in September 2001. In 2001, reports of human trafficking and physical abuse in West African cocoa farming raised concerns. Later that year, U.S. Representative Eliot Engel introduced a legislative amendment to fund the development of a "no child slavery" label for chocolate products sold in the United States. The American senator Tom Harkin, a leader in the movement to end abusive child labor worldwide, became involved.