U.S. government should copy tobacco growers' child labor ban: HRW

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The ban by two leading U.S. tobacco growers' groups on the use of child labor puts pressure on Washington to end the employment of children in hazardous and unhealthy work, a children's rights activist said on Thursday. The United States is the world's fourth largest tobacco producer and Jo Becker, children's rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch, said the ban meant hundreds of thousands of child workers would be "protected from real danger". U.S. ...



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