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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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Labor Activists to Picket Uzbek President’s Daughter at NYC Fashion Week
As we reported, Gulnara Karimova, daughter of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, is presenting her fashion line, GULI, at New York Fashion Week (September 8-15).
Labor and human rights activists are planning to hold a demonstration outside her show in New York City on September 15 with the slogan “Forced Child Labor is Out of Style!” [...]
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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.