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Rally at the Embassy of Uzbekistan to Stop Forced Child Labor
A quilt showing pictures of child working in Uzbek cotton fields was displayed at the rally. On the back of the quilt where the names of hundreds of concerned citizens who signed an online petition to the government of Uzbekistan.
On October 14, 2009, a rally was held in front of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, DC to protest the widespread use of forced child labor on Uzbek cotton farms. As part of a longstanding policy, thousands of children across the country are removed from schools by the government in order to pick cotton during harvest time.
The rally was sponsored by: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Child Labor Coalition, Communication Workers of America (CWA), International Labor Rights Forum, Not for Sale Campaign, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Workers United
For more information, please contact the International Labor Rights Forum at laborrights[at]ilrf.org. You can view the press release for this rally here: www.laborrights.org/stop-child-forced-labor/cotton-campai...
Rally at the Embassy of Uzbekistan to Stop Forced Child Labor
A quilt showing pictures of child working in Uzbek cotton fields was displayed at the rally. On the back of the quilt where the names of hundreds of concerned citizens who signed an online petition to the government of Uzbekistan.
On October 14, 2009, a rally was held in front of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Washington, DC to protest the widespread use of forced child labor on Uzbek cotton farms. As part of a longstanding policy, thousands of children across the country are removed from schools by the government in order to pick cotton during harvest time.
The rally was sponsored by: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Child Labor Coalition, Communication Workers of America (CWA), International Labor Rights Forum, Not for Sale Campaign, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Workers United
For more information, please contact the International Labor Rights Forum at laborrights[at]ilrf.org. You can view the press release for this rally here: www.laborrights.org/stop-child-forced-labor/cotton-campai...