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Cotton Campaign announces the results of monitoring in Uzbekistan for 2020 POLITICS 17:05 / 29.01.2021 474
In a notable sign of change, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, the Cotton Campaign’s frontline partner, did not document any cases of forced labor in some cotton-growing districts for the first time in ten years of monitoring forced labor in the Uzbek cotton harvest, the Coalition said in a statement.
Experienced independent monitors in the Uzbek Forum’s network reported higher numbers of voluntary pickers in places they monitored, and fewer encounters with pickers mobilized against their will. Monitors did document instances of forced labor organized by officials, however, as well as instances in which employees at state enterprises were required to contribute portions of their salary to hire cotton pickers.
Cotton Campaign welcomes significant progress of Uzbekistan in ending forced labor of cotton pickers
AKIPRESS.COM - The Cotton Campaign has welcomed significant further progress toward ending forced labor of cotton pickers in the 2020 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. In a notable sign of change, the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, the Cotton Campaign’s frontline partner, did not document any cases of forced labor in some cotton-growing districts for the first time in ten years of monitoring forced labor in the Uzbek cotton harvest.
Experienced independent monitors in the Uzbek Forum’s network reported higher numbers of voluntary pickers in places they monitored, and fewer encounters with pickers mobilized against their will. Monitors did document instances of forced labororganized by officials, however, as well as instances in which employees at state enterprises were required to contribute portions of their salary to hire cotton pickers, Cotton Campaign said in its statement.
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