NGO Says Child Labor Remains in Uzbekistan & Tajikistan Cotton Sector
The Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus (SOAS) has published a comparative report on child labor in the cotton sectors of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Both countries agreed to the International Labour Organization convention against child labor, however, SOAS…
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found that little has changed in Uzbekistan where child labor is an unspoken national policy. The report also finds that while Tajikistan's central government has issued decrees prohibiting child labor in cotton fields, it seems less able to control its dynamics at the local level. SOAS concludes that the key factors are that the agriculture sector is reliant on state-supported labor mobilization and that farms lack the resources to pay competitive wages for adult cotton pickers.