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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October 30, 2024
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June 12, 2023
US Lawmakers Move to Protect Child Farmworkers
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May 4, 2023
The US Should End Child Labor in Agriculture
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April 14, 2023
Florida Passes Extreme 6-Week Abortion Ban
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February 23, 2023
Next Labor Secretary Should Protect Child Farmworkers
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January 4, 2023
US Government Action May Expand Abortion Access
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July 21, 2022
46 Congressmembers Urge US to Protect Child Farmworkers
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June 23, 2022
US States Should Protect Youth Abortion Access
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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