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Coalition of Unions, Retailers, Human Rights Groups Appeal to Clinton on Failure to Downgrade Uzbekistan
A coalition of unions, retailers, labor and human rights groups have issued an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concern at the failure to downgrade Uzbekistan to Tier 3 on the US Watchlist in the State Department’s report on Global Trafficking in Persons (G-TIP), released this week. The letter, signed by 18 [...]
Uzbekistan Remains on US Watch List for Child Labor
The US State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons has released its annual report titled Global Trafficking in Persons (G-TIP).
Uzbekistan is included in G-TIP as in past years, and remains on the Tier 2 Watch List due to failure to eliminate the state-sponsored practice of forced child labor in the cotton industry. [...]
US G-TIP Policy on Uzbekistan Sparks Conservative Critique
The Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor has published a disturbing two-part article by Umida Hashimova, “US Repeats Policy Mistakes in Uzbekistan,” on the issue of forced child labor in Uzbekistan. The author, originally from Uzbekistan herself, claims the issue of child labor in her homeland is misrepresented and exaggerated, and implies that those who take [...]
U.S. State Department Country Reports on Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan
The US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices was released April 8, and Uzbekistan is singled out among the world’s worst violators of human rights.
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights Michael Posner outlined three major global trends — increased government restrictions on non-governmental groups, attempts to block the Internet, and attacks [...]
U.S. Department of Labor labels Uzbek cotton as a forced labor product
The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 mandated the DOL to produce a list of goods worldwide produced with trafficked and forced labor. Today the DOL released a list of 122 products from 58 countries, and among them, cotton from Uzbekistan. See the report at the DOL’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs [...]
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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.