Escravos do século XXI: "'I wish I could go to school': child labour in the tobacco fields of Malawi" - Reportagem de Sarah Boseley

Tiyamike Phiri is 14, with the long skinny legs of a girl entering adolescence. In another world, she would be with friends in the school playground. Instead, she is bent double at the hips, gouging out weeds from the earth under a savage sun between banked rows of tobacco plants using a heavy hoe, made of a tree branch and a metal plate.