MALAWI’S TOBACCO LEAF SECTOR STILL FOCUS OF EFFORTS TO REDUCE CHILD LABOUR
January 1st, 2019
WITH Malawi’s persistent cycle of poverty where half of its 18 million population (2017 World Bank data) live under the poverty line and nearly 1.5 million children employed as labourers, according to International Labour Organisation (ILO) data, including on tobacco farms – meaningful reforms to prevent these abuses have progressed slowly, experts say.
According to a US Department of Labor report issued in 2017 https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/malawi, Malawi has made “moderate advancement” in eliminating the worst forms of ...
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