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  • Uzbek cotton ‘free’ of forced labour and child labour

    Uzbek cotton ‘free’ of forced labour and child labour

    Uzbek cotton succeeded in eliminating systemic forced labour and child labour throughout the 2021 production cycle according to International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Third-Party Monitoring Report. Uzbekistan is the sixth-largest cotton producer in the world, with around two million people hired each year for the annual cotton harvest. An estimated two million children have been taken…