For several years now, the problem of forced child labour in the Uzbek cotton production has been a recognized problem among the international community...In the view of ECCHR companies which have engaged in cotton trading with Uzbekistan may have breached the OECD-guidelines in two aspects. Firstly, it is possible that they did not monitor their supply chains sufficiently to ensure that their Uzbek suppliers are acting in compliance with OECD guidelines...Secondly, it is also possible that companies have aiding the Uzbek Government in its human rights abuses insofar they are trading Uzbek cotton...ECCHR and its partner organ-izations demand that these cotton traders comply with internationally recognized OECD guidelines, and would particularly like to stress the European nature of this problem evi-denced by the parallel proceedings begun against corporations in different European states. [refers to Wal-Mart, C&A]