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Sign ILRF Petition to The Children’s Place on Uzbek Child Labour
*UPDATE! After more than 350 people signed this petition, the International Labor Rights Forum heard back from A Children’s Place. The company company has confirmed that it instructs its suppliers not to use Uzbek cotton, joining scores of other companies who have made similar commitments.
Jane Singer, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations [...]
What You Can Do About Child Labour in Uzbekistan
Bama Athreya, President, GlobalWorks Foundation and Judy Gearhart, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum have co-authored an article on The Huffington Post, one of the most widely-read publications on the Internet.
Titled What We Can Do on World Day Against Child Labor (June 12) — and we could add — on any day — the article [...]
EU to Consider Forced Labor in Uzbekistan
Forced child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields will be the focus of a June 21 hearing at the European Parliament. The International Labor Rights Forum, an advocacy organization for workers’ rights, is calling for an international investigation by the International Labor Organization (ILO) into the use of child labor and has [...]
Calls for International Investigation on Uzbek Child Labor
Labor and human rights groups at the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) conference this week called for an international investigation of forced child labor in Uzbekistan, the International Labor Rights Forum said in a statement on its website.
The investigation was called for at the ILO annual conference in Geneva by Anti-Slavery International and the International [...]
Gymboree Blocks Facebook Critics — But Publishes Prohibition on Use of Uzbek Cotton
Gymboree, the children’s clothing retailer, has blocked critics from its Facebook page who have been trying to get the company’s attention about the sourcing of cotton from Uzbekistan, which is produced through the exploitation of child labor, the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) reports.
ILRF has called attention to Gymboree in the past, urging the company [...]
Gearing up for the International Day Against Child labor June 12
The International Labor Rights Forum is planning a May 25 conference in Washington D.C. to discuss the state of the struggle. Representatives from the AFL/CIO, from Coca Cola, and from the State Department’s office of Child Labor and Trafficking will present.
Given that the ILO’s latest report on child labor shows that reductions observed [...]
LL Bean vows to exclude Uzbek cotton
Of all the companies named by the International Labor Rights Forum on this year’s Sweatshop Hall of Shame for the use of Uzbek cotton, LL Bean was the fastest to respond, and vowed to (eventually) exclude it from their supply chain. Let’s hope their follow through is as exhaustive as their initial response was rapid.
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LL Bean, Hanes, Gymboree: child exploiters
The International Labor Rights Forum released its list of Sweatshop Hall of Shame inductees for 2009. They include some of the best-known American retailers of children’s clothing…who refuse to stop profiting from the exploitation of children in Uzbekistan. ILRF writes:
While over 25 companies have committed to boycotting the use of Uzbek
cotton until the government ends [...]
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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.