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The pandemic wreaks havoc in the year meant to end child labor

For Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka, this year was an especially good one. He and his team rescued more than 1,750 children from harsh work on the country’s cocoa plantations, and helped put several traffickers behind bars.
“We had to do everything possible to ensure our cocoa is quality cocoa that is not produced by children,” said Zaka, who heads a specialist unit fighting child labor in Ivory Coast the world’s biggest cocoa supplier.
Named International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, this year was meant to boost such efforts to stamp out the practice.
However, despite some success stories ....

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