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GooGoosha’s Fashion Show Fizzles As Protestors Converge on Cipriani
Fashion scenesters in Manhattan today were suddenly confronted with an issue half a world away in Uzbekistan — forced child labor in Tashkent’s billion-dollar cotton industry.
Driven from Lincoln Center — the main stage for New York’s Fashion Week — the Uzbek dictator’s daughter Gulnara Karimova moved her runway to Cipriani, a prestigious midtown events space, [...]
Plea for Help from Uzbek Med Students Forced to Pick Cotton
Radio Ozodlik, the Uzbek Service of Radio Europe/Radio Liberty, has received an urgent plea from students forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan.
A student at the Faculty of Pediatrics at the Andijan Medical Institute, who gave only his first name, Abdumalilik, writes:
We need help, we are being tormented by fascistic methods. We are taken out to [...]
Labour Rights Activists Call on Cipriani to Cancel Karimova Fashion Show
Uzbek dictator’s daughter Gulnara Karimova had her show cancelled by alarmed organizers of Fashion Week in New York, the New York Post reported yesterday.
But she’s not giving up and has been searching for a new venue. According to the New York Post, she has contracted with Cipriani, an upscale restaurant and event space in [...]
Uzbek Students Used As Forced Labor During Cotton Harvest
Radio Ozodlik, the Uzbek Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, has a news story about students forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan.
Some students from the medical school in Andijon have told RFE/RL on condition of anonymity that they are being forced to work in cotton fields under draconian conditions.
The students said they are allowed only [...]
Booted from Fashion Week, Dictator’s Daughter is Venue-Shopping
After IMG, the organizers of New York City’s Fashion Week decided to cancel the show of Gulnara Karimova over her association with the autocratic Uzbek regime, she began shopping for a more amenable venue.
Now the daughter of Uzbekistan’s dictator Islam Karimov is planning to relocate her disgraced show to the posh restaurant and event space [...]
US, EU Apparel Companies and Major Industry Association Pledge to Help End Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan
An unprecedented number of U.S. and European apparel companies and a major industry association have signed a pledge to calle for the elimination of forced child labour in Uzbekistan, the Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) reports.
More than 60 of the world’s best known apparel companies and brands as well as the American Apparel and Footwear [...]
Human, Labor Rights Groups Welcome Cancellation of Karimova’s NY Fashion Show; Call on the Fashion Industry to Boycott Uzbek Cotton
Campaigners calling for an end to forced child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry welcome IMG’s move to cancel the fashion show of Gulnara Karimova, the Uzbek dictator’s daughter scheduled for September 15 as part of New York Fashion Week.
Gulnara Karimova is the daughter of strongman Islam Karimov, whose regime is widely criticized for its [...]
Uzbek Government Claims No Child Labour
The government of Uzbekistan has completed an investigation into allegations of child labour, and claimed to have found none, human rights activist Elena Urlayeva reported today on the list Human Rights in Central Asia. Uzbek human rights activists have vowed to press their cause further with a complaint to the prosecutor’s office.
Earlier it had been [...]
Uzbek Prime Minister Demands Abundant Cotton Harvest
The prime minister of Uzbekistan has demanded an abundant cotton harvest and threatening jail time for those who fail to produce state quotas, once again setting the tone for desperate local administrators and farmers to resort to forced child labour to accommodate the pressure from Tashkent.
Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, [...]
Carter’s Takes a Stand Against Forced Child Labour in Uzbekistan
Change.org readers have once again succeeded with another petition, encouraging a major clothing brand to publicly oppose Uzbekistan’s use of forced child labour in its own cotton, the International Labor Rights Forum reports.
A statement released on July 19 by Carter’s (which also owns Osh Kosh B’Gosh), notes that “because of the systemic, government-sanctioned [...]
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The production and export of cotton continues to be a major feature of the economy, politics and everyday lives of the people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. This report analyses the nature and causes of their use of child labour in the cotton sector.