U.S. government faces new lawsuit on child slavery cocoa
A nonprofit has filed a federal lawsuit to force the U.S. government to block imports of cocoa from Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. International Rights Advocates say that were left with no alternative but to file this lawsuit due to the lack of a response to their petition submitted over over three years ago. That petition, to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, called for a ban on the import of Ivorian cocoa due to "the irrefutable evidence of forced child