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Activists Oppose “Business as Usual”; Picket Uzbek-US Forum
Twenty organizations today signed a letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the US government not to resume “business as usual” with Uzbekistan due to persistent and serious human rights problems such as torture and forced child labor.
The groups included human rights organizations Amnesty International USA, the Berlin-based European Center for [...]
Be Not Afraid of Growing Slowly, Just of Activists Seeing Your Agenda
Last week, the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce boasted on its website that it was upgrading its annual American-Uzbek Business Forum in light of positive developments in bilateral relations:
Due to the positive developments during the recent Annual Bilateral Consultations between the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Uzbek Government [...]
Activists to Picket AmChan Meeting in DC; Uzbek Foreign Minister, US DAS to Speak
Plans are proceeding apace for a picket of a business meeting of the American Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce (AUCC) this week.
On Wednesday, September 28 at noon at the W Hotel in Washington, DC, a number of human rights and labor groups plan to protest the use of child forced labour in the cotton industry as [...]
Sign Our Petitions to Get the Stores Where You Shop to Help Stop Forced Child Labour
Have you been reading all the news about the Uzbek dictator’s daughter and how labour and human rights campaigners were able to convince the organizers of Fashion Week to cancel Gulnara Karimova’s fashion show?
This seemed like an impossibility at one time, as Karimova was here last year and backed by powerful Fashion Week sponsor Mercedes [...]
Younger Teens Sent to Work in Cotton Fields in Uzbekistan
Children as young as 13 are already being forcibly sent to work in the cotton fields, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights reports.
As the pressure mounts to harvest more cotton given high prices on the global market and droughts in Uzbekistan, since September 10, school-age children have already been mobilized to work in the cotton [...]
Students in Surkhandarya Province Mobilized to Pick Cotton
Starting on September 5, students from the ages of 14-17 at schools in the Surkhandarya region have been sent to the fields to pick cotton, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights reported on September 8.
Since the Soviet era inn Uzbekistan, middle school consists of grades 1-9. Children start school at the age of 7, although [...]
Fashion Week Organizer Cancels Show of Uzbek Dictator’s Daughter
After protests from human rights and labour groups about the use of forced child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry and grave human rights violations including torture, imprisonment and censorship, IMG, the model agency organizing New York’s Fashion Week have cancelled the participation of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbekistan’s notorious dictator Islam Karimov, the New York [...]
Geo Quiz: Which Central Asian Dictator Has a Fashion Designer Daughter?
Answer: Uzbekistan.
PRI’s The World Geo Quiz today references Gulnara Karimova, daughter of President Islam Karimov, dictator of Uzbekistan:
Karimova uses embroidered trims, and traditional blends of cotton and silk to reflect her Central Asian culture. And she’s got big plans to open Guli boutiques in her hometown of Tashkent.
All of that is causing a firestorm [...]
Mobilization of Students to the Cotton Fields Begins in Uzbekistan
The mobilization of students to the cotton fields has begun in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights reports.
According to reports from Uzbek monitors from the provinces of Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya, Khorezm, and Samarkand, on September 6, students from the trade schools and academies were sent to the fields to pick cotton.
The average age of [...]
Fashion Week Organizers “Horrified” by Human Rights Abuses in Uzbekistan
Gulnara Karimova, the controversial daughter of President Islam Karimov, dictator of Uzbekistan, is expected next week in New York at Fashion Week at Lincoln Center.
Today the New York Post reports that Human Rights Watch is questioning whether the sponsors of Fashion Week should include Karimova, who is her country’s ambassador to Spain and associated with [...]
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Download 2012 CEGG Report Forced Child Labour in Uzbekistan
The state-controlled forced labor system of cotton production in Uzbekistan continues to violate the human rights of Uzbek children and adults in order to support the central government with revenues from cotton exports. This report identifies alarming trends of the most recent harvests, including the increased tendencies of civil servants forced to pick cotton and children forced to work the most difficult and dangerous end of the harvest. The report calls for an ILO monitoring mission and action from the governments of the European Union and the U.S., the World Bank, and the private sector to stop forced labor in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan.