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Time to Drive Child Labour From Value Chains
Patricia Jurewicz, director of the Responsible Sourcing Network, a project of As You Sow, has an op-ed piece at ethicalcorp.com, Time to Drive Child Labour From Value Chains:
During the recent International Cotton and Textile Fair in Tashkent, not a single western buyer signed a contract for Uzbekistan’s cotton, according to a report in the [...]
Uzbek Cotton Fair Nets $550 Million In Sales
Uzbekistan is reporting sales of some $550 million worth of cotton and textiles at the two-day International Cotton and Textile Fair held in Tashkent, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports.
Some 330 companies from 38 countries reportedly sent representatives to the fair and those representatives bought a reported 600,000 tons of Uzbek cotton and [...]
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 [...]
Picket US-Uzbekistan Business Forum September 28
Buoyed by the success of the picket to protest inclusion of Gulnara Karimova in New York’s Fashion Week, the International Labor Rights Forum is planning a picket next week in Washington, DC as Uzbekistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Elyor Ganiev arrives for meetings with the business elite in the capital.
The Central Asian nation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dictator’s Daughter Expected at New York’s Fall Fashion Week
Once again, Gulnara Karimova, the controversial daughter of Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov, will be on the runway during Fashion Week in New York City this fall as she was last year.
Mercedes Benz, sponsor of the Fashion Week September 8-15, announced today that Gulnara is on the calendar to show her Guli label. The dictator’s daughter [...]
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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.