It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Uzbek Forum for Human Rights

World Trade / Uzbek Cotton

15 March 2022

6 minutes

Cotton pickers at a farm in 2009. Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO findings.

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