Event ends: October 14, 2009 – 1:00 pm
Rally and Picket to STOP Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields
Wednesday, October 14th
Noon – 1 PM
Embassy of Uzbekistan
1746 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC
(Near Dupont Circle)
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!
Sponsored by AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, Child Labor Coalition, International Labor Rights Forum, Not for Sale Campaign, SEIU, Workers United
For more information please contact laborrights@ilrf.org [1] or 202-347-4100
Sign the petition here: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/childlaborpetition091809 [2]