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Issue 9, November 22, 2011 – Final Issue
Published on 23 Nov, 2011 at 13:22 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
With this issue, we conclude our chronicle of forced child labour in Uzbekistan in 2011.
The chronicles of events taking place in Septembera and October of 2011, draw a thorough picture of the exploitation of the Uzbek people during the cotton season in the country.
This year students and schoolchildren worked in the fields…
Issue 8, November 7, 2011
Published on 6 Nov, 2011 at 23:46 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
Uzbek cotton ban has limited reach
With more than 60 of the world’s biggest and best-known apparel companies and brands – including Adidas, Burberry, C&A, Levi Strauss, Li &Fung, Liz Claiborne, PVH Corp and Wal-Mart Stores – already boycotting cotton from Uzbekistan, it’s not surprising there were no western buyers…
Issue 7, October 26, 2011
Published on 27 Oct, 2011 at 11:06 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
Free Microphone. The Radio Liberty programme where the listeners call and share their opinions. The mayor beats the farmers.
A listener from Mingbuloq district called us complaining that no measures are taken against violent authorities.
“Famers are being beaten, or getting arrested for not fulfilling the plan”.
Said our listener who…
Issue 6, October 19, 2011
Published on 19 Oct, 2011 at 13:23 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
Cotton campaign pushed a teenager to run away from home
In late September, a 17-year-old student from the radio-technical school in Angren ran away from home as he did not want to pick cotton instead of studying. His current whereabouts are unknown.
In early September, the administration of the radio-technical school announced the…
Issue 5, October 12, 2011
Published on 12 Oct, 2011 at 10:17 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
Slaves for the fall season:
In the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan alone, the authorities are planning to send 170,000 schoolchildren to the cotton harvest – and there is documentary evidence
Every year during the cotton harvest season, the Uzbek authorities turn a significant part of the population – students, schoolchildren,…
Issue 4, October 3, 2011
Published on 4 Oct, 2011 at 10:27 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
Cotton from Children`s Hands
Fashion companies want to renounce the use of raw material from Uzbekistan
By Frank Nienhuysen
Moscow – Gulnara Karimova is a beautiful woman with many characteristics. She is the Uzbek ambassador in Spain, a professor of political science; she represents her country at the United Nations in Geneva…
Issue 3, September 26, 2011
Published on 27 Sep, 2011 at 11:11 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
The chronicle covers the following regions:
1. Namangan 2. Samarkand 3. Djizzak 4. Kashkadarya
5. Tashkent
There are a total 13 administrative regions in Uzbekistan
Global clothing brands boycott Uzbek cotton
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.
Swedish…
Issue 2, September 2011
Published on 24 Sep, 2011 at 11:41 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
The chronicle covers the following regions:
1. Surkhandarya 2. Syrdarya 3. Namangan 4. Samarkand 5. Kashkadarya 6. Djizzak 7. Bukhara 8. Andijan
There are a total 12 regions in Uzbekistan.
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“Students are fascistically tortured”
Although the new school year has not started yet, the students already have been sent to the cotton fields and forced to work under severe conditions.
In Uzbekistan, during the…
Issue 1, September , 2011
Published on 14 Sep, 2011 at 17:04 in Chronicle Of Forced Child Labour 2011 | | No Comments
The Uzbek- German Forum for Human Rights (UGF), presents a chronicle of current events of the 2011 cotton season.
This chronicle of events includes articles of various media companies on the situation in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan, as well as witness reports prepared by our correspondents from the fields.
The…