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Campaigners challenge UN over forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry

Thomson Reuters Foundation Rights groups on Friday disputed findings by the United Nations showing Uzbekistan has nearly eliminated forced labour from its cotton industry, saying that exploitation is still “systematic”. The annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan is the world’s largest recruitment operation, with about 2.6 million people temporarily picking cotton every year, according to the […]