Activists of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan have submitted their suit to Tashkent’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district to demand the Education Ministry pay 100 million sums for damage inflicted on thousands of schoolchildren and teachers who were forced to pick cotton last autumn despite government pledged not to use child labour. Activist Yelena Urlayeva believes that this lawsuit will shake up the authorities and prevent them from sending children to cotton fields this autumn…The alliance decided to file the suit after the Education Ministry denied that children were involved in cotton picking last autumn.