Wednesday, 14 July 2010
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Kazakhstan: Migrant Tobacco Workers Cheated, Exploited
(July 14, 2010) - 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 largest tobacco companies.
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