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A group of civil society activists from Uzbekistan call for a boycott of cotton produced by forced child labour in Uzbekistan. Unlike other developing countries, the child labour in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan is not the result of poverty or the illiteracy of the population; it is caused not by a willingness of children to help their parents, but rather is a result of deliberate coercion policy adopted by the central government. The boycott would not affect the interests of ordinary citizens in Uzbekistan, farmers and rural families, who not only do not see any benefit for themselves from Uzbekistan’s cotton export, but also suffer from it. Each autumn, their children are being interrupted from school study for at least two months. The boycott shall affect only the interests of a narrow elite group enjoying excess-profits from trading the Uzbek cotton at world markets. We hope that the boycott will force the Uzbek government to begin real reforms in the cotton industry: abolish forced child labour, relieve farmers from the dictates of the state in state in deciding what to sow in their fields and sell at what price.
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Un disastro sia in termini umani che ambientali.
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