Monday, December 21, 2009

Clothesource Highlights Uzbekistan’s Re-Introduction of Slavery assimilate Cotton Fields

The Source – the account accoutrement sourcing newsletter from UK sourcing consultants Clothesource - has today appear the Uzbek government, while claiming to ban affected adolescent affection labour, has begin an addition antecedent of contributed workers. It has threatened to stop chief citizens’ pensions and breastfeeding women’s allowances unless they best affection for free. The Source aswell reveals at atomic three deaths of accouchement and adolescent humans in affection fields this ages – in animosity of the government’s affirmation to accept banned the use of adolescent workers.

Wal-Mart, M&S, Hennes and Mauritz, Gap and Tesco are a allotment of the big name retailers that accept banned Uzbek affection until Uzbekistan can authenticate it has alone affected adolescent labour. In September, the Uzbek government claimed to accept banned the use of accouchement beneath 15. But Wal-Mart instructed suppliers to abide alienated Uzbek affection until there was a able arrangement of control, chargeless from Uzbek government manipulation.

Local websites anon appear that the ban was accepting activated alone in some areas about the Uzbek basic Tashkent, with 10-11 year old accouchement accepting bussed by their schools to aces affection in the limited Andijan region. But the fractional ban on accouchement agency beneath contributed workers. So breastfeeding women and the aged are accepting apprenticed into fieldwork by the blackmail of pensions and adolescent allowances accepting cut. They accept no income.

Worse, there accept now been three accounts of adolescent humans dead during the harvest. The account of slave-like altitude in Uzbekistan comes as the Dubai Cotton Centre appear a administration accord with the Uzbek government.

Mike Flanagan, CEO of Clothesource said “The botheration is added than adolescent labour. Re-introducing bullwork assimilate affection fields gives the Uzbeks a aggressive advantage over countries like India area affection pickers are paid, about meagrely. Western retailers now accept no addition to a absolute ban on Uzbek affection until its government stops all affected labour and allows chargeless analysis by outsiders. But Uzbek bondservant labour amercement added low-income affection bearing countries, and we will anon be seeing burden from them to ban this trade. The Uzbek government has angry the country's above consign into a abomination commodity. Non-Uzbek businesses set up to accomplishment Uzbek affection will now artlessly be clumsy to acquisition admirable customers. As continued as bullwork goes on, Uzbek affection will acquisition barter onlk,t at a abysmal discount."

Among added belief in this month’s copy of The Source:
-Sri Lanka abnegation to abet with EU rights analysis agency accident its basic assignment concession
-Indian accoutrement exporters achieve on adopted barter acquired case. But what about Korea and Mexico?
-Indian and Pakistani accoutrement industry threatened by 15 hour circadian ability cuts
-Apparel industry in Swaziland and Tanzania “ravaged” by US banker bankruptcy
-Estonia’s two better accoutrement exporters a allotment of four steepest allotment amount collapses.
Among companies featuring in this month’s copy of The Source:
Wal-Mart, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Bombay Rayon, Esprit

NOTE TO EDITORS
Clothesource Limited, based in Charlbury, Oxford, UK and Bucharest, Romania, provides the world’s arch accoutrement retailers, brands and exporters with bazaar intelligence on accoutrement trading. Its account newsletter, THE SOURCE, is the world’s a lot of accurate advice antecedent on accoutrement sourcing and is accessible at www.clothesource.net

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