Despite laws and government pronouncements, forced child labour remains a part of Tajikistan’s cotton harvest...Children ages 12 to 18 work in the fields. But, according to some teachers, 8-year-old children were also forced to work...In previous years children were made to pick cotton during school hours; this year children harvested on the weekends...[T]he government of Tajikistan will furnish the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child a periodic national report on its implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child [on 19 January 2010.]