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Opinion:
Uzbek cotton and forced child labour - is the Government serious?
A new announcement by one of Central Asia's most repressive regimes that it will "ban" children under 16 from picking cotton requires a sceptical eye from both companies and campaigners alike, says Sean Ansett
This week's very welcome announcement that Uzbek Prime Minster Shavkat Mirziyayev has signed a decree to implement two recently signed ILO conventions regarding child labor by the government has been met with mixed reaction.
There is a distinct lack of trust among many observers as to whether the measures will be implemented. Uzbekistan's new law now defines the legal minimum working age as 16.
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Comments:
Child labour = product BAN for EU companies - Eduardo O, 11 Nov 2009
"is the Government serious?" - Do you really believe that? A good way to ensure this would be to punish EU companies for buying this cotton AND ban all Uzbek-cotton products made in China, Russia and Iran (if any) from entering EU markets. (..and then, the sky turned pink and it started raining honey..)
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