Human rights in the tobacco fields of Malawi – in pictures

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Photographer David Levene visited Malawi with Sarah Boseley, to document the impact of the tobacco industry on the wellbeing of the local farming communities whose livelihood depends on it. Human rights lawyers Leigh Day are working with Malawian translators and paralegals interviewing potential clients to join the watershed legal action against British American Tobacco

A boy, 8, stands next to a trunk from a Jenga tree which is being used as a supporting pole for tobacco drying sheds.

 

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