CHILD LABOUR: “Cotton is Politics, Do Not Joke With It - Chronicle of Forced Child Labour - Cotton Harvest 2010”

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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 September through November. This practice has been in place and almost unchanged since the Stalin era. Observers state that forced child labour is orchestrated by the Uzbek central government which, in turn, denies its responsibility for it.    

The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights monitored the use child labour in the Uzbek cotton industry during the 2010 harvest season, producing 10 newsletters with reports from the field; the following (attached) is a compilation of these reports.

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/Uzb cotton chronicle 2010 UGF.pdf

Articles: 
Article 32: Child labour
Organisation: 
Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/Uzb cotton chronicle 2010 UGF.pdf
Link : 
http://www.crin.org/docs/Uzb%20cotton%20chronicle%202010%20UGF.pdf

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