For the most current information and resources on children's rights, check out HRW's Children's Rights Division
This toolkit will not be updated after Spring 2026.
Children's Act for Responsible Employment (CARE) Toolkit
Hundreds of thousands of children are employed as farmworkers in the United States. They often work 10 or more hours a day with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous pesticides, and die at 4 times the rate of other working youth. Farmworker children drop out of school in alarming numbers.
Click on each tab for information and resources:
Background
- Press Release: US: Child Farmworkers’ Dangerous Lives
- Download the Factsheet:Â Child Labor in U.S. Agriculture
- Read the Rreport: Â Fields of Peril: Child Labor in US Agriculture
- For more information visit the Human Rights Watch CARE Act Campaign website.
Additional Resources & Media
- New York Times:Â U.S. Cracks Down on Farmers Who Hire Children,
- Dateline Presents:Â America Now: Children of the Harvest
