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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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. anti-trafficking report: child labor on cotton is forced labor…
…and the Uzbek government is not doing anything serious about it.
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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.