Margaret Wurth
Margaret Wurth is a senior researcher with the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she focuses on child labor and health. Wurth has investigated access to HIV prevention and treatment in North Carolina, New York, and California. More recently, she has researched hazardous child labor in gold mining in the Philippines and in tobacco farming in the United States, Brazil, and Indonesia. Wurth’s op-eds have been published in Teen Vogue, The Guardian, CNN, The Progressive Magazine, Huffington Post, and other outlets. She has co-authored articles published in peer-reviewed journals on the public health impacts of police and prosecutors using possession of condoms as evidence to support prostitution-related charges. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2012, Wurth worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA member with a community-based organization in North Carolina. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Articles Authored
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September 28, 2018
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September 24, 2018
Presidential Candidates Need to Heed Abortion Debate
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July 26, 2018
Brazil Death Signals Need for Abortion Reform
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June 27, 2018
How we can fight child labour in the tobacco industry
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March 26, 2018
14, Pregnant from Rape, Dead in Childbirth
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March 14, 2018
US Senators Urge EPA to Keep Protecting Kids from Pesticides
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January 12, 2018
US May Ax Regulations and Allow Kids to Work with Pesticides
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December 1, 2017
No Woman Should Need to Beg for An Abortion
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November 10, 2017
Will Brazil’s Congress Turn Its Back on Women and Girls?
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September 28, 2017
Why Brazil Should Decriminalize Abortion
Other Writing
Reports Authored
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“The Only People It Really Affects Are the People It Hurts”
The Human Rights Consequences of Parental Notice of Abortion in Illinois
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“Whoever Finds the Vaccine Must Share It”
Strengthening Human Rights and Transparency Around Covid-19 Vaccines
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“I Felt Like the World Was Falling Down on Me”
Adolescent Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Dominican Republic
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“It’s Your Decision, It’s Your Life”
The Total Criminalization of Abortion in the Dominican Republic
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