ILRF Calls on U.S. Customs Service to Halt Imports of Forced Labor Cotton from Uzbekistan

Posted on May 15, 2013 by | No Comments

Formal Complaint Filed Today Under Tariff Act of 1930 (Washington, D.C.) – A formal complaint against the importation of cotton from Uzbekistan grown and harvested with forced labor was filed today by the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), a leading American human and labor rights watchdog organization. Under the Tariff Act of 1930, the U.S. [...]

EU rhetoric/EU action: ending forced labour in Uzbek cotton industry

Posted on April 26, 2013 by | No Comments

By Joanna Ewart-James, Anti-Slavery International This article first appeared in the EU Observer, April 23, 2013. LONDON - European Parliamentarians deserve praise for blocking a textile agreement with Uzbekistan due to systematic and continuous human rights violations in its cotton sector. This week, the parliament’s trade committee will review this position and in light of the [...]

Congress Turns a Critical Eye on Forced Labor in Uzbekistan

Posted on April 19, 2013 by | No Comments

By Jeff Goldstein, Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundations Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ) expressed grave concern that the government of Uzbekistan continues to force hundreds of thousands of men, women and children to labor in the annual cotton harvest.  Rep. Smith stated his concern yesterday, at an April 18 hearing of the House Foreign Affairs [...]

Uzbekistan continues forced labor: U.S. should urge reform

Posted on April 16, 2013 by | No Comments

Press Release: Global coalition calls on the United States to use its leverage end state-sponsored forced labor of children and adults in the cotton sector in Uzbekistan (April 16, 2013) – The US Department of State should place Uzbekistan in Tier 3 in the 2013 Global Trafficking in Persons Report (J/TIP) unless the Uzbek government invites [...]

Uzbekistan Must End State-Sponsored Slavery

Posted on March 15, 2013 by | No Comments

By Mark P. Lagon, Bennett Freeman and Nate Herman Uzbekistan’s foreign minister, Abdulaziz Kamilov, was one of the first foreign officials to meet with Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington this week. The meeting underscored Uzbekistan’s important role in the Northern Distribution Network, through which the United States moves supplies to the troops in [...]

“Action against child labor in Uzbekistan took place In Washington”

Posted on March 14, 2013 by | No Comments

The following article by Voice of America was originally published in the Uzbek language and is available here. The translation into English follows: “While the delegation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov visited Washington yesterday, U.S. activists held a protest in front of the Uzbek Embassy. Coalition of dozens of [...]

Demonstration for Human Rights: Today, 12:00 PM at Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, DC

Posted on March 11, 2013 by | No Comments

Global coalition of civil-society organizations call on the government of Uzbekistan to stop forced labor, forced child labor and human rights abuses (Washington, DC, March 11, 2013) – The government of Uzbekistan must end forced labor, forced child labor and human rights abuses, said Uzbek nationals in the U.S., the Cotton Campaign and the Child [...]

Kerry Should Raise Rights Abuses at Talks – Human Rights Watch Press Release

Posted on March 7, 2013 by | No Comments

Today, Human Rights Watch calls on U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to raise human rights abuses during talks with Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov and other Uzbek officials, during their visit to Washington DC, March 11-13. The HRW press release is forwarded below and, along with other human rights issues that HRW addresses, conveys fundamental [...]

March 11 Demonstration: Stop Forced Labor, Forced Child Labor & Human Rights Abuses in Uzbekistan

Posted on March 6, 2013 by | No Comments

Join a Demonstration to Call on the Uzbek Government to Stop Forced Labor, Forced Child Labor and Human Rights Abuses in Uzbekistan During the Uzbekistan Foreign Minister’s visit to Washington, DC               March 11, 2013, 12 – 1 PM EST, at the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, Massachusetts Ave. [...]

Cotton Campaign Calls on H&M to Implement the Daewoo Protocol

Posted on February 1, 2013 by | No Comments

Members of the Cotton Campaign, including Anti-Slavery International and the International Labor Rights Forum, express their disappointment that H&M’s recent announcement does not go far enough to ensure that it is not complicit in the use of state-sponsored forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry. H&M has recently announced that it will ask suppliers and critical [...]

keep looking »