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Hellish Work: Tobacco Workers in Kazakhstan
By: HumanRightsWatch
Posted: Jul 14 10
Witnessed: 912 veces
Regions: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Issues: Corporations and human rights, Labor, Slavery & forced labor
With Jane Buchanan, senior researcher in the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan travel to the Central Asian economic powerhouse of Kazakhstan in search of employment. Thousands of these migrant workers, often together with their children, find work in tobacco farming, where many are subjected to abuse and exploitation by employers supplying tobacco to Philip Morris Kazakhstan, a subsidiary of Philip Morris International, one of the world's
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