Escravos do século XXI: "Mexico: children toil in tobacco fields as reforms fail to fix poverty" - Reportagem de Nina Lakhani

Industry and government have made steps to tackle child labor in Mexico’s tobacco fields, but Nina Lakhani finds low incomes for working families slow progress.

Escravos do século XXI: "Tobacco farm in Malawi: the families toiling in the fields" - David Levene

Life as tenant farmers in Kasungu, northern Malawi, can be a struggle for families trapped in poverty, who feel forced to rely on their children’s help, impacting schooling.

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.