This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close...
Summary: UZBEKISTAN: The cotton picking children, teachers, doctors, musicians, policemen (Russian)
Становятся известны все новые и новые факты привлечения школьников, студентов и просто горожан к принудительному труду на сборе урожая хлопка....
[15 December 2011] - European parliamentarians have voted overwhelmingly to reject the reduction of textile tariffs for Uzbekistan until the International Labor Organization (ILO) is given access to the country to examine ...
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Summary: More than 60 of the world’s top clothing labels, including Burberry and Levi, are to boycott cotton from Uzbekistan over claims the government forces children to harvest the crop. [18 September 2011] - Swedish high street retailer H...
Summary: Human rights campaigners protest against child labour in Uzbekistan outside Gulnara Karimova's private fashion show. [15 September 2011] - With its art deco frontage and celebrity clientele, it was an unlikely venue for a clash between...
Summary: Le deuxième pays exportateur d'"or blanc" au monde utilise aujourd'hui encore le travail forcé des enfants dans les champs.[Le 4 juillet 2011] - Les campagnes internationales de prévention et les appels au boycott du coton ouzbek n'...
Summary: Forced child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields will be the focus of a June 21 hearing at the European Parliament. [13 June 2011] - The International Labour Rights Forum, an advocacy organisation for workers’ rights, is ...
Forced Child labour is endemic and widespread in Uzbekistan ’s cotton industry. Experts say that between 1.5 and 2 million schoolchildren between the ages 10-16 are forced by local authorities to pick cotton every harvest season from...
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Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have, in the Charter, reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person,...
