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WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today reintroduced ...
aiming to end child labor in the tobacco industry. A project in West Africa helped curb the practice of 10-year-old children being sent to harvest cacao beans with machetes, according to Reid Maki ...
CHILD LABOUR The tobacco industry in Malawi has been severely criticised over its use of child labour. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU ...
Hundreds of thousands of children worldwide are thought to be working full-time on tobacco farms, suffering from toxic levels of nicotine exposure and abusive labor conditions. In Malawi alone ...
The International Tobacco Growers Association opposes any of its members using child labour. In September 2001, The Tobacco Association of Malawi recognised that the practice was evil and ...
The Trump administration, under Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, has cancelled millions in grants aimed at combating global child and slave labour. These grants, administered by the ...