Margaret Wurth
Margaret Wurth is a senior researcher with the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she focuses on child labor and health. Wurth has investigated access to HIV prevention and treatment in North Carolina, New York, and California. More recently, she has researched hazardous child labor in gold mining in the Philippines and in tobacco farming in the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia. Wurth’s op-eds have been published in Teen Vogue, The Guardian, CNN, The Progressive Magazine, Huffington Post, and other outlets. She has co-authored articles published in peer-reviewed journals on the public health impacts of police and prosecutors using possession of condoms as evidence to support prostitution-related charges. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2012, Wurth worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with a community-based organization in North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Articles Authored
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July 13, 2017
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May 12, 2017
Brazil’s Zika Threat Remains
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March 15, 2017
Indonesia's Child Tobacco Workers in Peril
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February 9, 2017
Did a Child Get Sick Farming the Tobacco in Your Cigarette?
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October 22, 2016
Farmworker Children and Nicotine Exposure: Time for a Ban
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October 12, 2016
US, Companies Should Protect Child Tobacco Workers
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May 25, 2016
Keep Children Out of Indonesia’s Tobacco Fields
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December 21, 2015
Tobacco fields no place for kids
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November 3, 2015
Tobacco’s Children. Brazil Sets An Example for the U.S.
Other Writing
Reports Authored
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“The Only People It Really Affects Are the People It Hurts”
The Human Rights Consequences of Parental Notice of Abortion in Illinois
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“Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”
Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines
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“I Felt Like the World Was Falling Down on Me”
Adolescent Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Dominican Republic
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“It’s Your Decision, It’s Your Life”
The Total Criminalization of Abortion in the Dominican Republic
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