EU legal bid to block slave-tainted Uzbek cotton
A legal challenge over cotton imports from Uzbekistan could stop slave-made goods entering the European Union. The legal action says…
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Campaigner against rape during war remembered
A former Dutch prisoner of war on the island of Java, Jan Ruff-O’Herne, has died after spending her later years…
Orban’s ‘slave law’ unites opposition
Hungary’s “slave law”, which could oblige staff to work up to 400 hours of annual overtime and wait up to…
World Bank funding state slavery: report
The World Bank has been accused of ignoring child and forced labour in Uzbekistan with a report saying schools have…
MEPs to endorse slave labour: HRW
A Soviet propaganda poster urging peasants to speed up cotton production in Russian and Uzbek. Cotton production in Uzbekistan has long been politically…
Deaths blamed on Uzbek cotton recruitment
Large areas of Uzbek society are disrupted by the cotton harvest. Source: Eurasian Times Radio Free Europe is arguing that…
Uzbeks suffer fresh cotton ‘slavery’
Historic Samarkand is a key cotton-producing province. Source: Eurasia Times Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest is in full swing and an…
Tashkent accused of cotton slavery
Uzbek cotton is weighed. Source: Wikimedia A report on global slavery ranks Uzbekistan among the five worst offenders in terms…
EU and Nestlé mount pressure on Thai fishing slavery
The appalling practises of the Thai fishing industry are increasingly under the spotlight. Source: Flickr Thai police claim more than…