Slave Nation: State sponsored forced child labour in Uzbekistan's cotton fields
This report released by the Environmental Justice Foundation exposes how cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan remains one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world. In Slave Nation EJF’s reveals how the Government of Uzbekistan continues to lie to the international community while routinely compelling hundreds of thousands of children as labourers in the country’s annual cotton harvest. With evidence that little has changed despite the promises of the Uzbek Government and with the spring planting season just around the corner, EJF asks whether it will be children forced to pick the crop again when the harvest comes around later this year?
You can download or order a hardcopy of the report on the Environmental Justice Foundation website.
Environmental Justice Foundation (2010) Slave Nation London 17 pages.
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