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31 Oct 2007

Author:
BBC Newsnight

[video] [UK clothes retailers react to BBC report on Uzbek government system using children to harvest cotton] [starts at 18:22 point in video]

Clothes retailers have been reacting throughout the day with emotions ranging from anxiety to anger and in some cases outright indifference to our revelations last night at the use of children to harvest cotton in Uzbekistan. [Responses by ASDA (part of Wal-Mart), Matalan, Arcadia Group (owns Topman, Topshop, Burton), Plexus Cotton]

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