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White Gold: Uzbekistan, A Slave Nation For Our Cotton?

Herausgeber:  Environmental Justice Foundation and Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights, 2010

Schlagwörter:  Kinderarbeit, Zwangsarbeit, Usbekistan, Menschenrechte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Cotton production in Uzbekistan is one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world.
Uzbekistan - the world’s 6th largest producer of cotton - is unique for the scale of the state-sponsored, forced mobilisation of schoolchildren during the annual cotton harvest. Child labour is not the result of poverty or family need. It is at the behest of and directly benefits one of the world’s most corrupt and repressive regimes, which makes an estimated US$1 billion [£622 million] from the annual sale of 1 million tonnes of cotton.
Two years after the Government signed two International Labour Organisation (ILO) (Conventions in an attempt to curtail international criticism) the 2010 cotton harvest was again marked by state-sponsored, child and adult forced labour.
Over the past 3 years, a number of major international retailers and clothing brands including Tesco, Walmart-Asda, Marks and Spencer, Gap, Levis and C & A have pledged to avoid the use of Uzbek cotton in their supply chains. Such laudable voluntary initiatives from the private sector have not been matched by action at a policy level in Europe, a major end-point for Uzbek cotton.
This event aims to promote long-term solutions to forced labour and environmental damage and support for  workable, durable and effective policy solutions.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010

Umfang: 8 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Erwachsene

Bezug: PDF zum Download bei der Environmental Justice Foundation

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