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World Day Against Child Labor
Today is World Day Against Child Labor, and the International Labor Organization and supporters have organized events in more than 50 countries. They are making the day this year with a new report on children in hazardous work.
Human rights monitor Elena Urlayeva has been reporting from the cotton fields in Uzbekistan, where students have been [...]
The harvest is (mostly) in, but at what price?
This is the question posed earlier this month by the Association for Human Rights in Central Asia. That group’s press release of November 4 broke the stories of deaths and injuries suffered earlier in the harvest. More than just breaking news, the group points out the total complicity of institutions that, in a non-totalitarian society [...]
What’s so bad about cotton conscription, anyhow? Part 1: toxins
There are sometimes blog commenters (and authors!) who downplay the harm to children brought on by their forced stints in the fields each Fall. Never mind that the work clearly meets the standards of the UN Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The thinking goes, if I did this back in college and [...]
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Download 2010 SOAS Report What Has Changed
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.