21 Oct 2009

Cotton Campaign: Against Forced & Child Labor: www.CottonCampaign.org
www.cottoncampaign.org, Provo, Utah, US.
Self-description:
"www.cottoncampaign.org tracks the worldwide efforts to eradicate forced child labor in the Central Asian cotton industry, most prominently in Uzbekistan. It surveys relevant Russian-, English-, and Uzbek-language media for developments, as well as issuing its own news reports from human rights activists and researchers in the field. National, NGO, IGO, business and investor actions against forced child labor are also featured, as well as the ongoing attempts to mandate supply chain transparency and country-of-origin labeling for fibers.
Regular updates on the 2009 harvest are currently being posted. For more information, contact cottoncampaign--at--gmail.com."
Site contents:
* Recent Posts (October in the fields, What's so bad about cotton conscription: Part 2: violence and accidents, What's so bad about cotton conscription, anyhow? Part 1: toxins, "Little Slaves" by Yodgar Obid, Poetry and the people's tragedy);
* Topics (2009 harvest, agricultural policy, boycott, campaigning and aid groups, corporations, documentation, international organization efforts, political context, regional, traceability, uncategorized, US government, what you can do);
* ARCHIVES (September 2009, August 2009, July 2009, June 2009, May 2009, November 2007);
* Campaigning And Aid Groups (As You Sow on child labor in Uzbek cotton, Environmental Justice Foundation on Uzbekistan, International Labor Rights Fund on Uzbekistan, Save the Children's work in Central Asia, Stop Child Labor Coalition);
* Campaigning Groups And International Organizations (International Center on Child Labor and Education, International Labor Organization--International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor);
* International And Intergovernmental Organizations On Children's Rights (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF in Uzbekistan);
* News About Uzbekistan (Eurasianet Uzbekistan page, Fergana.ru, Uznews.net);
* About (Frequently Asked Questions Uzbekistan Info, What can I do to help?);
* Reports (#"We Live Subject to their Orders": A Three-Province Survey of Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan's 2008 Cotton Harvest, #The SOAS report, Invisible to the World: The Dynamics of Forced Child Labour in the Cotton Sector of Uzbekistan, #Environmental Justice Foundation: Still in the Fields);
* Authors * Cotton Campaign RSS Feeds (Latest posts, Latest comments);
* Search.
[Cassandra Cavanaugh of the www.cottoncampaign.org holds a Ph.D. in Russian history from Columbia University (2001), and has written on the role of public health in Russian and Soviet colonization Central Asia. Between 1998-2001 she was Senior Researcher for Central Asia at Human Rights Watch - ed.].
URL http://www.cottoncampaign.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Cassandra Cavanaugh (cottoncampaign--at--gmail.com), forwarded by central-eurasia-l@lists.fas.harvard.edu
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