Forced Labour Rampant in Uzbekistan Cotton Harvest

Tula Connell
Equal Times
09/22/2015
Health care workers toiling in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan are to be joined by third- and fourth-year university students forced by the government to labour in the country’s annual autumn harvest, according to stories compiled by the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights.
 
The non-profit organisation has also highlighted news that minors again may be forced into picking cotton.
 

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