Brussels, 15/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - To mark the World Day against Child Labour on 12 June, human rights NGOs called for an international inquiry to be carried out on child labour in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan. A request passed on from the Commission by a cross-party group of 16 MEPs calls for the preferences granted by the EU to the former USSR to be suspended if such allegations are proven.
The NGOs Anti-Slavery International and International Labour Rights Forum stirred things...