Publications and Resources
- Cotton and Child Labor Poster
- ILRF 8/18/2008
- Thousands of children around the world are forced to pick cotton. In India, child workers in the cottonseed industry are often in a state of debt bondage and work at least nine hours a day.
- Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain
- 8/31/2007
- ILRF, along with international partners including OECD Watch, India Committee of the Netherlands, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe and Eine Welt Netz NRW, released a report focused on recent trends in employment of child labor on cottonseed farms in India.
- Labor Conditions in the Tajikistan Cotton Industry
- International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) and the Tajikistan Social Institute for Youth and Civilization 8/1/2007
- Over the past five years, the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) has received growing evidence of systematic conditions in the cotton industry that lead to widespread use of forced and child labor, affecting millions of children and adults in countries including India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Egypt, Pakistan, and China.
- Seeds of Change (India)
- Davuluri Venkateswarlu 5/31/2007
- Monsanto and Bayer continue to drag their feet as thousands of children are subject to bonded child labor in India.
