UZBEKISTAN:  Call to Boycott Slave Children Cotton
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MOSCOW, Jan 4 (IPS) - A group of civil society activists has called for  immediate boycott of Uzbek cotton produced by forced child labour.
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Beijing has ordered provincial governments to begin a promised nationwide crackdown on forced labor in China, sparked by outrage over reports hundreds of farmers and children were enslaved in rural brick kilns.
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Uzbekistan&#39;s parliamentary elections have fallen significantly short of international standards, according to Europe&#39;s main human rights body.
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An international group of intellectuals urged the president of Uzbekistan on Thursday to release three women jailed for their human rights advocacy amid a sweeping crackdown on government critics.
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Foreign monitors accuse Uzbekistan of holding a presidential election without any genuine choice.
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The United States is not doing enough to  bring its support for cotton into line with international  trading rules, the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10: Pakistan and China on Thursday expressed strong opposition to a US-sponsored resolution on Sudan which demands sanctions and a UN inquiry whether a genocide was taking place in the country.
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Officials of the United States textile industry said that they would petition to block the expected flood of Chinese imports.
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China&#39;s lawyers association has urged  making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported  on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators  accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
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The humble cotton sock has become the center of an international trade dispute.
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French President Jacques Chirac  on Friday said U.S. cotton subsidies were scandalous and  immoral because they hurt African farmers.
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The West is seeking ways to re-engage   in dialogue with Uzbekistan, a strategic Central Asian state   which has been in international isolation after a bloody   government crackdown last year, diplomats said.
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Uzbekistan's parliamentary election on  Sunday fell significantly short of international standards  because it involved only parties loyal to President Islam  Karimov, Europe's main human rights body said on Monday.
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The US textile industry officials would plead for blocking Chinese imports to the Bush administration this month. Earlier this year, the White House had rejected a similar request made by 130 Republican and Democratic members of Congress.
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ISLAMABAD: The World Trade Organisation (WTO) members have set up a body to focus on cotton as a specific issue in the agriculture talks, as required in the decision called the âJuly Packageâ taken in August this year to all the WTO negotiations, it
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GENEVA, Sept. 8 -- The United States was ordered to withdraw some of its support for producers of cotton and other commodities, according to a World Trade Organization report made public Wednesday.
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In 1991, landlocked Uzbekistan became a sovereign nation after decades of Russian and Soviet influence. Since 1990, Islam Karimov has been the areaâs most notorious politician.