@marcusbleasdale Workers, including children under the age of 16, harvest tobacco in Kentucky, United States (US). The world’s largest tobacco companies buy tobacco grown on US farms, but none have child labor policies that sufficiently protect children from hazardous work. In the United States, the Human Rights Watch report Tobacco’s Hidden Children on hazardous child labor in tobacco fields helped convince thousands of American tobacco farmers to stop hiring children under 16. These findings have prompted some of the world’s largest tobacco companies to support the development of an industry-wide standard to get kids out of hazardous work. IMPACT is an exhibition focusing on the collaboration between photography and advocacy. @humanrightswatch has been using photography for many years to increase the power of the message and increase the IMPACT of the work of the researchers in the field. This collaboration has led to some extraordinary results and we would like to celebrate those achievements in this exhibition at #Christies in London this week @thephotographersgallery @natgeo
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