Unreported World
Season 11 Episode 4 - Tobacco's Child Workers
Unreported World travels to Malawi to reveal that children as young as three are being illegally employed to produce tobacco, much of it destined to be consumed by British smokers. Malawi's children suffer health problems from handling tobacco and some are trapped in bonded labour arrangements, leaving them unable to escape. Little seems to be being done to protect their health and wellbeing. In Mchinji district, reporter Jenny Kleeman and producer Julie Noon find a group of 15 to 20 children sorting tobacco by the roadside. Emilida and her three children - including her three-year-old son - have been working there since dawn. She tells Kleeman the four of them will get about 80 pence for a day's work. The air is thick with tobacco dust and Emilida says it makes the family feel unwell.
Episodes in Season 11
End of the Elephant?
Nigeria's Killing Fields
Pakistan's Terror Central
24 min
Tobacco's Child Workers
24 min
Inside Burma's Secret State
Iraq's Next Battlefield
Bolivia's Child Miners
El Salvador: The Child Assassins
USA: Down and Out
Colombia's Dying Tribes
Malaria Town
Afghanistan's Child Drug Addicts
Philippines: The City with Too Many People
Mexico's Indian Rebellion
Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
Pakistan: After the Floods
Witches on Trial
India: Love on the Run
Senegal: School for Beggars
24 min
Thailand's Red Fever
24 min
