As part of her research, To the Bone’s director and co-writer, Erin Li, interviewed Zama Coursen-Neff, executive director of the children’s rights division of Human Rights Watch.  Read the article and learn about the dismal conditions that child migrant farmworkers endure in the US.

“Child labor laws are already far more lax in agriculture than in any other sector. US law allows 16 and 17-year-olds to work on farms under hazardous conditions, while the minimum age elsewhere is 18. Kids under 14 can’t work at all, and those under 16 can work only three hours a day when school is in session. But on any farm, children can work at age 12, with no hourly limits outside of school hours. On a small farm kids of any age can work legally. This dangerous double standard between agriculture and other sectors is also discriminatory: 85 percent of farmworkers are Hispanic, and this group alone faces uniquely lower safety standards.”