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Zimbabwe: Revealed - The Bitter Harvest for Children Working on Tobacco Farms
HRW, 5 April 2018
Government, Companies Failing to Protect Workers, Small-Scale FarmersChildren and adults who work on Zimbabwe’s tobacco farms are facing serious risks to their health as well… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Tobacco Firms Fail to Warn Farmers of Nicotine Poisoning Dangers
HRW, 5 April 2018
Everyone sat on a thatched blanket spread outside under the warm sun, near the tobacco curing barn, with flat farmland, green grass and the occasional tree stretching as far as the… Read more »
Revealed - Bitter Harvest for Children Farming Zimbabwe's Tobacco
Tobacco farming is a pillar of Zimbabwe's economy. Tobacco is the country's most valuable export commodity - generating US$933.7 million in 2016 - and the crop is particularly significant to Zimbabwean authorities' efforts to revive the economy. However, Human Rights Watch research in 2016 and 2017 into conditions on tobacco farms in Zimbabwe reveals an industry tainted by child labour and confronted by other serious human rights problems as well.
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5 April 2018
A Bitter Harvest for Tobacco Farmers in Zimbabwe
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- Human Rights Watch
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Tobacco farming is a pillar of Zimbabwe's economy. Tobacco is the country's most valuable export commodity - generating US$933.7 million in 2016 - and ... see more »
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5 April 2018
A Bitter Harvest: Child Labor and Human Rights Abuses on Tobacco Farms in Zimbabwe
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- HRW
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This report-based on extensive field research and interviews with 64 small-scale tobacco farmers like Panashe, as well as 61 hired workers on tobacco ... see more »
