Hellish Work: Tobacco Workers in Kazakhstan

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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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• human rights
• Philip Morris
• cigarettes
• migrant workers

[TerencioLaverdure1]

These giant faceless corporations and their evil investors are surely the worst of humanity. Thank you for posting this.

[tafxkz]

One Kazakhstan tobacco farm land owner disliked this video

[woodleaf11]

WTF!! These twats have jobs, why cry about them ? If the conditions are bad, DONT work in them. Philip Morris have NO liability, they buy the stuff ONLY. We dont need human rights going to third world countries to help them, it seems the ONLY human rights are for asylum seekers that commit crime, criminals and third worlders though. None seem to be for the average person in the street.

[zzman305]

Must...not...make...Borat joke

[inkey2]

wouldn't it be even more hellish if Philip Morris decided to not to buy tobacco from them at all......then they would have no jobs and starve. I mean, does the USA have to interfere in yet another country?

[nuttynice7]

shame on Phillip Morris 

[argnur]

I am ashamed of my country for allowing such crimes!

[batgaa]

shoot the all bad kazakhs.. Kyrgyz,Uzbek,Kazakhs all equal back in Soviet Union era.Look now!

[Wapitdownthehatchguy]

tell them niggas they gonna be rolled on!