Comments for Cotton Campaign http://www.cottoncampaign.org Stop Forced and Child Labour in Uzbekistan! Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Labour Rights Activists Call on Cipriani to Cancel Karimova Fashion Show by cybertruth http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/09/13/labour-rights-activists-call-on-cipriani-to-cancel-karimova-fashion-show/comment-page-1/#comment-21 cybertruth Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:27:58 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=844#comment-21 apparently the approval of the regime depends on the famous Western singers and actors converted not only by Mr. Karimov's jet-setter daughters, but also by Karimov himself. At the musical festival in Uzbekistan 26.0811 Albano Carissi said,”Islam Karimov’s name sounds extremely poetic” and kissed the ground three times. I wonder how much that cost and whether Carissi does this in other countries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30bOJh_Dlr4&NR=1 apparently the approval of the regime depends on the famous Western singers and actors converted not only by Mr. Karimov’s jet-setter daughters, but also by Karimov himself. At the musical festival in Uzbekistan 26.0811 Albano Carissi said,”Islam Karimov’s name sounds extremely poetic” and kissed the ground three times. I wonder how much that cost and whether Carissi does this in other countries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30bOJh_Dlr4&NR=1

]]> Comment on Uzbek Government Forms Working Group on Forced Child Labor — But Still No Invitation to the ILO by East of Center » Blog Archive » Child Exploitation? You May Be Wearing It http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/04/13/uzbek-government-forms-working-group-on-forced-child-labor-but-still-no-invitation-to-the-ilo/comment-page-1/#comment-19 East of Center » Blog Archive » Child Exploitation? You May Be Wearing It Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:02:05 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=567#comment-19 [...] mainstream media – forces Tashkent into some sort of real action. This spring the Uzbeks formed a working group on child labor but are still balking at allowing international organizations to monitor the [...] [...] mainstream media – forces Tashkent into some sort of real action. This spring the Uzbeks formed a working group on child labor but are still balking at allowing international organizations to monitor the [...]

]]> Comment on Uzbek Government Forms Working Group on Forced Child Labor — But Still No Invitation to the ILO by Google Trend Uzbekistan: European Cotton Traders Reject NGO Claims of Forced Child Labor | me on blue http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/04/13/uzbek-government-forms-working-group-on-forced-child-labor-but-still-no-invitation-to-the-ilo/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Google Trend Uzbekistan: European Cotton Traders Reject NGO Claims of Forced Child Labor | me on blue Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:37:04 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=567#comment-18 [...] Uzbekistan’s different provinces during a material garner in a fall. But a Uzbak polity has refused to cater a invitation to fellow — thereby serving to ready a infamous lot alive, with both EU as well as joint [...] [...] Uzbekistan’s different provinces during a material garner in a fall. But a Uzbak polity has refused to cater a invitation to fellow — thereby serving to ready a infamous lot alive, with both EU as well as joint [...]

]]> Comment on House of Lords Discusses Corporate Pledge Against Uzbek Cotton by cybertruth http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/07/08/house-of-lord-discusses-corporate-pledge-against-uzbek-cotton/comment-page-1/#comment-16 cybertruth Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:39:29 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=750#comment-16 Little Slaves Bitter frost and biting wind at their backs How it howls and wails; Weakened and bent, they trudge with their sacks Little hands, little slaves Torn galoshes and worn out clothes They dream of warm sunny days; Shaking from cough they tremble as they go Little hands, little slaves Childish thoughts, sweet dreams All of them perish, dead and gone; In their native land they go like prisoners Little hands, little slaves Row after row, sack after sack With tears and consumptive wheeze; Stunted lives, a horrible tale, Little hands, little slaves Poem by Yodgar Obid, Uzbek poet Little Slaves

Bitter frost and biting wind at their backs
How it howls and wails;
Weakened and bent, they trudge with their sacks
Little hands, little slaves

Torn galoshes and worn out clothes
They dream of warm sunny days;
Shaking from cough they tremble as they go
Little hands, little slaves

Childish thoughts, sweet dreams
All of them perish, dead and gone;
In their native land they go like prisoners
Little hands, little slaves

Row after row, sack after sack
With tears and consumptive wheeze;
Stunted lives, a horrible tale,
Little hands, little slaves

Poem by Yodgar Obid, Uzbek poet

]]> Comment on Coalition of Unions, Retailers, Human Rights Groups Appeal to Clinton on Failure to Downgrade Uzbekistan by cybertruth http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/06/28/coalition-of-unions-retailers-human-rights-groups-appeal-to-clinton-on-failure-to-downgrade-uzbekistan/comment-page-1/#comment-14 cybertruth Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:48:15 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=731#comment-14 Earlier on I read the article “US G-TIP Policy on Uzbekistan Sparks Conservative Critique” by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick on this site http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/05/11/us-g-tip-policy-on-uzbekistan-sparks-conservative-critique/#respond And even with greater interest I read the article, to which Catherine's article was a response - a big 2-part article posted under the name of Umida Hashimova on Jamestown Foundation site http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=37876 "US Repeats Policy Mistakes In Uzbekistan". The Board of the Jamestown Foundation consists of personas closely related to Pentagon. The language of the article repeats Donald Rumsfeld's rhetoric on Uzbekistan that department of State should not repeat its mistakes and should not anger the president of Uzbekistan on human rights issue and thus threaten the Northern Development Network for Afghanistan: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/04/did-donald-rumsfeld-whitewash-massacre-in-uzbekistan/237568/ Indeed, President of Uzbekistan, one of the most atrocious leaders of the world, is easily angered by the Department of State. When the U.S. free media covered the massacre in Andijan in 2005, he shuttered the U.S. military base in Uzbekistan; and when U.S. Department of State awarded an Uzbek human rights activist in 2009 he sent the U.S. Ambassador home. And style of the article "US Repeats Policy Mistakes In Uzbekistan" makes me think that it belongs to James Callahan, a husband of Umida Hashimova. Callahan, 62, worked for many years as a head of the United Nations Agency for Organized Crime and Drug Control in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He recently returned to the U.S. with his young wife and a child and works as an Analyst for the Department of State. Umida Hashimova, branded by JTF as “an independent scholar” is a graduate of the 2006 international human rights program of the Essex University and currently works as a Program assistant at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners http://www.naruc.org/about.cfm?c=staff&id=2516 Her father, Utkir Hashimov, is an Uzbek writer ( http://uforum.uz/showthread.php?t=6279 ), whom President Karimov decorated with an Uzbek “Order of Great Merit” in 2001 and since 1995 Hashimov holds a position of the Chair of the Uzbek Parliament committee on press and information, an area, whose condition can well describe the regime as totalitarian. Poet Yusuf Juma, a prisoner of conscience, recently released after serving a long and torturous term in jail, in his publication “Tragedy of the Nation” named Utkir Hashimov among a few other writers “who created Karimov as we know him, and who killed the nation” http://salay.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/yusufjuma/. The other writers are Erkin Vohidov, Abdulla Aripov. They all hold high positions in the regime. Erkin Vokhidov – chair of the Uzbek Parliament committee on international affairs and inter-parliamentary connections; since 2005 – member of the Senate, upper chamber of Parliament, appointed by the President’s Decree http://www.centrasia.ru/person2.php?&st=1013880406 Abdulla Aripov holds the position of the member of the Senate, higher chamber of the Uzbek Parliament, he held the position of the chair of the writers’ Union of Uzbekistan for 15 years from 1994 to 2009. I can't see in this picture millions of Uzbek schoolchildren enslaved by the regime to pick "the country's strategic crop". They are not related to Umida and James, a sweet American-Uzbek couple, not related to glamorous poets entrusted with the harness of freedom of speech and lives of the speakers, they are not related to Pentagon or Department of State. They must be an Uzbek version of the Terracota Army of the Emperor, only live, because THEY PICK THAT COTTON. Earlier on I read the article “US G-TIP Policy on Uzbekistan Sparks Conservative Critique” by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick on this site http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/05/11/us-g-tip-policy-on-uzbekistan-sparks-conservative-critique/#respond
And even with greater interest I read the article, to which Catherine’s article was a response – a big 2-part article posted under the name of Umida Hashimova on Jamestown Foundation site http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=37876 “US Repeats Policy Mistakes In Uzbekistan”.
The Board of the Jamestown Foundation consists of personas closely related to Pentagon.
The language of the article repeats Donald Rumsfeld’s rhetoric on Uzbekistan that department of State should not repeat its mistakes and should not anger the president of Uzbekistan on human rights issue and thus threaten the Northern Development Network for Afghanistan: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/04/did-donald-rumsfeld-whitewash-massacre-in-uzbekistan/237568/
Indeed, President of Uzbekistan, one of the most atrocious leaders of the world, is easily angered by the Department of State. When the U.S. free media covered the massacre in Andijan in 2005, he shuttered the U.S. military base in Uzbekistan; and when U.S. Department of State awarded an Uzbek human rights activist in 2009 he sent the U.S. Ambassador home.
And style of the article “US Repeats Policy Mistakes In Uzbekistan” makes me think that it belongs to James Callahan, a husband of Umida Hashimova.
Callahan, 62, worked for many years as a head of the United Nations Agency for Organized Crime and Drug Control in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He recently returned to the U.S. with his young wife and a child and works as an Analyst for the Department of State. Umida Hashimova, branded by JTF as “an independent scholar” is a graduate of the 2006 international human rights program of the Essex University and currently works as a Program assistant at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners http://www.naruc.org/about.cfm?c=staff&id=2516
Her father, Utkir Hashimov, is an Uzbek writer ( http://uforum.uz/showthread.php?t=6279 ), whom President Karimov decorated with an Uzbek “Order of Great Merit” in 2001 and since 1995 Hashimov holds a position of the Chair of the Uzbek Parliament committee on press and information, an area, whose condition can well describe the regime as totalitarian. Poet Yusuf Juma, a prisoner of conscience, recently released after serving a long and torturous term in jail, in his publication “Tragedy of the Nation” named Utkir Hashimov among a few other writers “who created Karimov as we know him, and who killed the nation” http://salay.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/yusufjuma/. The other writers are Erkin Vohidov, Abdulla Aripov. They all hold high positions in the regime. Erkin Vokhidov – chair of the Uzbek Parliament committee on international affairs and inter-parliamentary connections; since 2005 – member of the Senate, upper chamber of Parliament, appointed by the President’s Decree http://www.centrasia.ru/person2.php?&st=1013880406
Abdulla Aripov holds the position of the member of the Senate, higher chamber of the Uzbek Parliament, he held the position of the chair of the writers’ Union of Uzbekistan for 15 years from 1994 to 2009.

I can’t see in this picture millions of Uzbek schoolchildren enslaved by the regime to pick “the country’s strategic crop”. They are not related to Umida and James, a sweet American-Uzbek couple, not related to glamorous poets entrusted with the harness of freedom of speech and lives of the speakers, they are not related to Pentagon or Department of State. They must be an Uzbek version of the Terracota Army of the Emperor, only live, because THEY PICK THAT COTTON.

]]> Comment on Uzbek Government Forms Working Group on Forced Child Labor — But Still No Invitation to the ILO by Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan » Blog Archive » The inclusion of Uzbekistan at all in the G-TIP Watch List. http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/04/13/uzbek-government-forms-working-group-on-forced-child-labor-but-still-no-invitation-to-the-ilo/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan » Blog Archive » The inclusion of Uzbekistan at all in the G-TIP Watch List. Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:24:35 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=567#comment-13 [...] to wriggle out of a downgrade to Tier 3 because it has a “national action plan” and has created a state-controlled “monitoring body,” neither of which have proven effective. Reports are already coming in this year of the use of [...] [...] to wriggle out of a downgrade to Tier 3 because it has a “national action plan” and has created a state-controlled “monitoring body,” neither of which have proven effective. Reports are already coming in this year of the use of [...]

]]> Comment on Uzbek Government Forms Working Group on Forced Child Labor — But Still No Invitation to the ILO by Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan » Blog Archive » Forced child labor in Uzbekistan and US laws — whether rule of law… http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2011/04/13/uzbek-government-forms-working-group-on-forced-child-labor-but-still-no-invitation-to-the-ilo/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan » Blog Archive » Forced child labor in Uzbekistan and US laws — whether rule of law… Sun, 22 May 2011 10:00:25 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=567#comment-12 [...] and ratified, and claims it is in the process of fulfilling. Recently, in fact, the government created a new inter-agency task force to monitor the issue, a move greeted with skepticism by activists but which indicates that the [...] [...] and ratified, and claims it is in the process of fulfilling. Recently, in fact, the government created a new inter-agency task force to monitor the issue, a move greeted with skepticism by activists but which indicates that the [...]

]]> Comment on Grieve…and then give by bornbabies http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2010/06/18/grieve-and-then-give/comment-page-1/#comment-9 bornbabies Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:00:39 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=484#comment-9 Child labor laws are designed to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. but sorry to say many of the countries are enforces child labor laws... Child labor laws are designed to protect the educational opportunities of youth and prohibit their employment in jobs that are detrimental to their health and safety. but sorry to say many of the countries are enforces child labor laws…

]]> Comment on LL Bean vows to exclude Uzbek cotton by admin http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2009/12/09/ll-bean-vows-to-exclude-uzbek-cotton/comment-page-1/#comment-7 admin Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:13:17 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=388#comment-7 Janyl, thanks! It's a beautiful piece of work and so wonderful that you make his readings available as audio files! Janyl, thanks! It’s a beautiful piece of work and so wonderful that you make his readings available as audio files!

]]> Comment on LL Bean vows to exclude Uzbek cotton by janyl http://www.cottoncampaign.org/2009/12/09/ll-bean-vows-to-exclude-uzbek-cotton/comment-page-1/#comment-4 janyl Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:47:57 +0000 http://www.cottoncampaign.org/?p=388#comment-4 Hi, your site helped me to come up with an interview with Mr. Yodgar Obid here: kultur-multur.org Thanks Janyl Jusubjan Hi, your site helped me to come up with an interview with Mr. Yodgar Obid here: kultur-multur.org

Thanks
Janyl Jusubjan

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