U.S. Department of Labor labels Uzbek cotton as a forced labor product

Posted on September 10, 2009 by admin | No comments

The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 mandated the DOL to produce a list of goods worldwide produced with trafficked and forced labor. Today the DOL released a list of 122 products from 58 countries, and among them, cotton from Uzbekistan. See the report at the DOL’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs page: http://www.dol.gov/ilab/.

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