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Uzbekistan: A clothing manufacturer boycotts Uzbek practice of child labor

Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Uzbekistan, Economics & Business, Human Rights, Labor, Youth

Avicenna reports [1] that following a campaign against the use of forced child labor in Uzbekistan's cotton fields, Gymboree, the children’s clothing manufacturer, became the latest company to take a stand by refusing to buy cotton from this Central Asian country.