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ILO: systemic child and forced labour ‘eliminated’ from Uzbek cotton

01/03/2022
ILO: systemic child and forced labour ‘eliminated’ from Uzbek cotton

Reporting on the most recent top-level findings by the International Labour Organization (ILO) concerning the 2021 Uzbek cotton harvest, Tashkent-based chief of the ILO’s third-party monitoring project in Uzbekistan, Jonas Astrup, has revealed that all risks associated with systemic child and forced labour among cotton pickers have now been...

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