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A. Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, is bordered by Mali to the northwest, Burkina Faso to the northeast, Ghana to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Liberia and Guinea to the west. Ivory Coast and Ghana supply about 70% of the world’s cocoa beans, and employ 1.56 million children - many as young as five - in the back-breaking work of harvesting the beans.
D. Children work in agriculture at the expense of their education and health in poor countries like Ivory Coast. In the United States, children at the age of 12 can legally work unlimited hours on farms of any size with parental permission, as long as they don’t miss school. There is no minimum age for small or family farms. More than half of work-related deaths among U.S. children occur in agriculture, which employs only 5.5% of the nation’s child workers.
C. According to the CIA World Factbook, North Korea is the poorest nation outside of Africa. However, several African nations also ranked better than Afghanistan, Haiti and Yemen. Just last week, North Korea’s leaders warned of severe food shortages this year.
B. Up to 10 million children are trapped in modern forms of child slavery, according to The World Counts which cited the $37 price tag for a child in Ghana. The Supreme Court ruled there was no evidence that decisions made in the United States led to the forced child labor in Ivory Coast, even though Nestle and Cargill provided the farms with planning, technical and financial resources.