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10 Jun 2009

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EurasiaNet News

Uzbekistan: Forced child labour begins in cotton fields of Karakalpakstan

A human rights group is reporting that children’s rights are again being abused in Uzbekistan, where thousands of youths are...forced to work in cotton fields. In Karakalpakstan...schoolchildren and students have been sighted at work in cotton fields, one rights group, Veritas claims…[O]bservations suggest that all able-bodied students are at work weeding. The work is unpaid and the school year disrupted…Nutritious food and even water are in tight supply…