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18 April 2013 H&M takes steps to stop complicity in Uzbek Forced labour In response to our campaign and the hundreds of emails sent by Anti-Slavery supporters, H&M moved to take some steps to limit the risk of its products being linked to modern-day slavery. H&M now requires direct… Keep reading »
The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labour of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign (of which Anti-Slavery International is a member) released the Review of the 2012… Keep reading »
31 May 2012 The European Union should urge the Uzbek government to grant access to the International Labour Organization (ILO) to monitor the 2012 cotton harvest, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations said in letters to the European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton and Denmark’s foreign minister, Villy Søvndal. The monitoring… Keep reading »
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly rejected a trade agreement with Uzbekistan that would have made it easier for the European Union to import textiles made by cotton harvested by children in slavery. MEPS voted, 603 to eight, not to extend the current ‘EU-Uzbekistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement’ to include the… Keep reading »
10 June 2011 To mark World Day Against Child Labour (Sunday 12 June) human rights groups have called for an international investigation to expose the use of forced child labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry. The investigation was called for at the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) annual conference in Geneva by… Keep reading »
23 December 2009 Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) are demanding that high-street giants H&M and Zara stop selling clothes made with cotton from Uzbekistan, a country where around half of all cotton is picked by forced child labour, following an investigation that links Uzbek cotton to products… Keep reading »