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2008 In Focus Archive: July 6 - 15, 2008
Associate Deputy Under Secretary Larry Casey traveled to Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana from July 6 - 15, 2008, to participate in consultative meetings organized as part of a U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL)-funded Cocoa Oversight Contract with Tulane University. The trip also included site visits to a USDOL-funded project in Ghana implemented by the International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC), and to a project in Cote d’Ivoire funded by the cocoa industry and implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).
Event Photos
Madame Acquah, Special Counselor to the Prime Minister of Cote d’Ivoire, and Associate Deputy Under Secretary Casey, at Tulane University’s 2nd Annual Cocoa Consultative Meeting in Abidjan. (DOL Photo)
Children in Tiekourayaokro, Cote d'Ivoire depicting exploitive child labor on a cocoa farm. (DOL Photo)
Associate Deputy Under Secretary Larry Casey discusses cocoa cultivation with Ivorian farmers. (DOL Photo)
Associate Deputy Under Secretary Larry Casey visits ICI project in Tiekourayaokro, Cote d’Ivoire. (DOL Photo)
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