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Forced labour still prevalent in Turkmenistan cotton harvest May 4, 2021 Turkmenistan has made no progress on eradicating forced labour from its cotton harvest, a new report finds. Every year, the government of Turkmenistan forces tens of thousands of citizens to harvest cotton, the country’s second largest export after petroleum. If workers fail to meet their cotton-picking quotas, they face punishment, harassment, or the loss of their jobs. This means that cotton products originating in Turkmenistan sold across the globe violate laws and other import bans that prohibit the sale of goods made with forced-labour. “Cotton is a global commodity and doesn’t stay within borders,” says Allison Gill, the forced labour programem director at Global Labour Justice-International Labour Rights Forum, and the coordinator of the Cotton Campaign a multi-stakeholder coalition that has been working since 2008 to eradicate state-imposed forced and child labour in the cotton sector in

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