Forced Child Labour in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season
- Document number
- 2202
- Date
- 2008
- Title
- Forced Child Labour in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Spring Agricultural Season
- Author/publisher
- International Labor Rights Forum and Human Rights Defenders of Uzbekistan. (ILRF)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Human trafficking, Slave Labour, Sexual Exploitation, Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour, Debt bondage, Labour exploitation, Domestic labour, Slavery-like practices; Agricultural labour;
- Summary
- The report focuses on the spring 2008 agricultural season. However, there have already been several reports showing that the problems described here have continued during the current fall 2008 harvest, as well, despite claims to the contrary. For example, the website Uznews.net reported on September 26, 2008, "Schoolchildren aged 13 and over have been sent to pick cotton in all districts in Samarkand Region despite government pledges not to use child labor in this cotton harvest.... An official from the Pastdargom District education department said this order had taken him and his colleagues by surprise because only few days before they were ordered to ensure 100% attendances at schools
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