Webinar – Tobacco Industry and Child Labor

Speakers:

• Mary Assunta, Research and Advocacy Manager, GGTC
• Dr Adriana Blanco Marquizo, Head of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
• Pascal Diethelm, President of Oxysuisse
• Marty Otañez, University of Colorado
• Rita Surita, agricultural engineer
• Brenda Chitindi, Executive Director of Tobacco Free Association of Zambia
• Margianta SJD, Director of Emancipate Indonesia
• Farida Akhter, Executive Director of UBINIG Bangladesh
• Dudley Tarlton, Health and Development Specialist, United Nations Development Programme
• Benjamin Smith, International Labor Organization
• Bronwyn King, Founder and President of Tobacco-Free Portfolios
• Margaret Wurth, researcher for the children's rights department of Human Rights Watch
• Deborah Sy, Head of Public Policy and Global Strategy for the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control

 

In this Global Year for the Elimination of Child Labor, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, a partner of STOP, a global tobacco industry watchdog, is organizing this conference to address the issue of child labor in tobacco farming, which is often the subject of moral whitewashing by the tobacco industry. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has provided clear approaches to eliminate child labor through Articles 17 and 18 as well as Article 5.3. These policies to eliminate tobacco industry interference in tobacco farming and production would increase the level of protection that the government affords farmers and child workers from the tobacco industry.

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