Will you join us in Washington, DC next Wednesday, October 14th, to tell the government of Uzbekistan to STOP using forced child labor in the country's cotton fields?

As young people across the United States have returned to school, children in Uzbekistan are being removed from their classes in order to pick cotton during the current harvest season.  As part of a long-standing government policy, Uzbek state officials order millions of children as young as 10 years old and their teachers to leave school and harvest cotton under hazardous working conditions.  Cotton picked by Uzbek children is then used in the clothes we wear in the U.S. 

Join us in telling the government of Uzbekistan that enough is enough!  No more forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry!

This rally is sponsored by: AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers, Child Labor Coalition, International Labor Rights Forum, Not for Sale Campaign, SEIU, Workers United

For more information please contact laborrights@ilrf.org or 202-347-4100

** Don't forget to sign the petition to the government of Uzbekistan here! **

PS: Are you on Facebook?  RSVP for the rally on Facebook here and invite your friends!