This week, the United States Department of Labor published its annual global report evaluating 131 countries and territories on their efforts to end the worst forms of child labor. The US government should examine child labor within its own borders with the same scrutiny. Human Rights Watch and our partners have reported extensively on the dangers children face while working in US agriculture, where more child workers die than in any other US industry. Child farmworkers described working long hours often in extreme heat to help their families make ends meet. They perform backbreaking work tending fields and harvesting crops. Most receive little – if any – safety training. One teenage boy interviewed lost two fingers in an accident while working on a tobacco farm. Changes to US law and regulations to protect child farmworkers are long overdue. | 
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