● Children as young as 10 work cotton fields for two months or more
● Children receive a few US cents per kilo of cotton picked
● Children forced to live in barracks for months at a time
Sting (above in non-Uzbeki cotton T-shirt, we pray) has been fiercely criticized for performing in Uzbekistan for a fee north of £1m
A new report released today by the Environmental Justice Foundation reveals that cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan remains one f the most exploitative enterprises in the world.
The report says 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.
It presents 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.
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