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EJF: TESCO TO BAN UZBEK COTTON IN RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOUR ABUSES
Uzbekistan conducted by the EJF that led to the recent BBC Newsnight exposé on forced child labour in Uzbekistan, as reported by Simon Ostrovsky of London based TV production company Insight ... Clothing and Hardlines, has told suppliers in a letter that ``the use of organised and forced child labour is completely unacceptable and leads us to conclude that whilst these practices persist in ...
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EJF: Child Labour and Cotton in Uzbekistan
How Can I Help? The Issues Partners Reports Film Photos Success Stories Child Labour and Cotton in Uzbekistan "There is no child labour in Uzbekistan" - official spokesperson for the Uzbek embassy in London (2005 ... of cotton would earn them 38 US cents. For the Uzbek regime, forced child labour is undeniably cheap and immensely profitable. A child may be paid, at best, 3-4 US cents per kilo ...
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Picking Cotton Carefully
Chemicals in Cotton [3] is another damning indictment of the agrochemical industry. The use of forced child labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan (see later) is a wake-up call to the ... cotton picking and children are often beaten and underpaid for their efforts [9]. (note: Uzbekistan child labour has subsequently been the subject of a major investigation by BBC2 Newsnight) Studies on children ...
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MRF > Law & Policy > Events
Southern Supply Chains. It will particularly look at why child labour occurs in supply chains and what actions companies need to take to determine socially responsible strategies to address child labour ...
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Fair Trade Classroom Happenings
My students have sent the President of ... Hill, WA Chinook Middle School Christina Todd Since learning about forced child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa, the students in ... created individual valentines and letters and posters expressing their concern about child labor in the cocoa industry and desire for their ...
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Fair Trade Classroom Happenings - Printer Friendly
My students have sent the President of ... Hill, WA Chinook Middle School Christina Todd Since learning about forced child labor on cocoa farms in West Africa, the students in ... created individual valentines and letters and posters expressing their concern about child labor in the cocoa industry and desire for their ...
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Oak Foundation: Child Abuse - Other Countries
North America Europe Marine Conservation Europe Gulf of Honduras Bering Sea and North Pacific Child Abuse Eastern Europe Eastern Africa Switzerland INGOs Other Countries Learning Initiatives Human Rights ... project in India for children at risk of being trafficked for forced labour and forms of slavery, such as child domestic workers. (Over three years) Active Grants From Previous Years Bayti ...
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OneWorld.net / News / News:Today's news
Children caught up in crises around the world are being forced to wait for life-saving emergency relief as the introduction of the UN’s emergency ... about having the virus. Watch the video clips on OWTV Capacity Building Aid Capacity Building Child Labour Climate Change ...Countries at Risk Environmental Activism Food Security ...Countries at Risk Gender HIV/AIDS ...
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OneWorld.net / News / Editorial: Guest editorials
Child Rights Protection: A More Holistic Approach 11.12.2003 Kailash Satyarthi, Founder-Chair of the Global March Against Child Labour, advocates an integrated model embracing quality education, social protection to combat child labour ... more than men are displaced by mining and forced out of traditional land-based work into marginalised and often abusive labour roles. TWN-Africa's Allan Lassey and ...
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PEFC - PEFC Reference Documents
Conventions of the ILO. The fundamental ILO Conventions are as follows: No 29: Forced Labour, 1930 No 87: Freedom of Associations and Protection of the Right to Organise, 1948 ... No 105: Abolition of Forced Labour, 1957 No 111: Discrimination (Employment and Occupation), 1958 No 138: Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973 No 182: Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 Link http:// ...
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