Otañez M G, Muggli M E, Hurt R D, Glantz S A
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-1390, USA.
Tob Control. 2006 Jun;15(3):224-30. doi: 10.1136/tc.2005.014993.
To examine British American Tobacco and other tobacco industry support of the Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation.
Analyses of internal tobacco industry documents and ethnographic data.
British American Tobacco co-founded the Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation (ECLT) in October 2000 and launched its pilot project in Malawi. ECLT's initial projects were budgeted at US2.3 million dollars over four years. Labour unions and leaf dealers, through ECLT funds, have undertook modest efforts such as building schools, planting trees, and constructing shallow wells to address the use of child labour in tobacco farming. In stark contrast, the tobacco companies receive nearly US40 million dollars over four years in economic benefit through the use of unpaid child labour in Malawi during the same time. BAT's efforts to combat child labour in Malawi through ECLT was developed to support the company's "corporate social responsibility agenda" rather than accepting responsibility for taking meaningful steps to eradicate child labour in the Malawi tobacco sector.
In Malawi, transnational tobacco companies are using child labour projects to enhance corporate reputations and distract public attention from how they profit from low wages and cheap tobacco.
调查英美烟草公司及其他烟草行业对消除烟草种植童工基金会的支持情况。
对烟草行业内部文件和人种志数据进行分析。
英美烟草公司于2000年10月共同创立了消除烟草种植童工基金会（ECLT），并在马拉维启动了其试点项目。ECLT的初始项目在四年内预算为230万美元。工会和烟叶经销商通过ECLT的资金，开展了一些适度的工作，如建造学校、植树和打浅井，以解决烟草种植中使用童工的问题。形成鲜明对比的是，在同一时期，烟草公司通过在马拉维使用无偿童工，四年内获得了近4000万美元的经济利益。英美烟草公司通过ECLT在马拉维打击童工的努力，是为了支持公司的“企业社会责任议程”，而不是为采取有意义的措施根除马拉维烟草行业的童工现象承担责任。
在马拉维，跨国烟草公司利用童工项目来提升企业声誉，并转移公众对它们如何从低工资和廉价烟草中获利的关注。
