White Gold: Uzbekistan, A Slave Nation for Our Cotton?

NewEJF’s new briefing ‘White Gold; Uzbekistan, slave nation for our cotton?’ released today, summarises the information provided by independent journalists and human rights activists, and together with the exhibition shows the presence of young children picking cotton at the behest of their government.

Uzbekistan is the world’s 6th largest producer of cotton and the government which has a monopoly on trade, makes around $1 billion each year from exports.

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