Eight of twelve provinces reporting so far: Tashkent region

Posted on October 5, 2009 by admin | No comments

Fergana.ru has posted a remarkable photo essay from the Iangiiul area cotton fields.

Read the article in English here.

It makes for sad reading, with twelve year olds afraid to speak to reporters in the fields due to their teachers and police nearby. Trying to pitch in alongside, the reporters left coughing from the dust and with their hands torn up from the branches and pods. This should remind those who argue cotton picking is “not so bad” for children that it actually qualifies as one of the worst forms of child labor, according to ILO convention 182.

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