Event ends: October 14, 2009 – 1:00 pm
As young people across the United States have returned to school, children in Uzbekistan are being removed from their classes in order to pick cotton during the current harvest season. As part of a long-standing government policy, Uzbek state officials order millions of children as young as 10 years old and their teachers to leave school and harvest cotton under hazardous working conditions. Cotton picked by Uzbek children is then used in the clothes we wear in the U.S.
Join us in telling the government of Uzbekistan that enough is enough! No more forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry [1]!
Wednesday, October 14th
Noon – 1 PM
Embassy of Uzbekistan
1746 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC
(Near Dupont Circle)
Speakers include:
- Bama Athreya, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
- Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
- Antonia Cortese, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers
- Amanda Formica, United Students for Fair Trade
- Sally Greenberg, Executive Director, National Consumers League
- James E. Winkler, General Secretary, United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society
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 laborrights@ilrf.org [2] or 202-347-4100
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO RSVP! [3]
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TO STOP CHILD LABOR IN UZBEKISTAN [4]!