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HRW: Indonesian Children Endangered Working in Tobacco Fields

Dizziness, headaches, nausea, vomiting -- these are the symptoms thousands of Indonesian children are suffering after working long hours across the Southeast Asian country's vast tobacco plantations. In a new report issued Wednesday, titled The Harvest is in My Blood: Hazardous Child Labor in Tobacco Farming in Indonesia, Human Rights Watch interviewed hundreds of child laborers, ranging in age between 8 and 17, working in some of the archipelago's 500,000 tobacco farms -- despite...


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