Kazakhstan: Philip Morris suppliers used child and forced labour

Date: 15 Jul 2010

A new report by Human Rights Watch has said that tobacco bought by Philip Morris International from Kazakhstan included farms that used workers that had been coerced into labour, along with child labour.

The report authors interviewed 68 farm workers in 2009, and said that they had found six families that had been forced into labour on farms they had looked at.

Philip Morris said that it welcomed the information alerting it to conditions in some of its suppliers, and said that it had strengthened policies and training as a result. In future, employers would be required to provide written contracts for all workers, and to avoid abusive situations or the use of children.

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