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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10463
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/trade

No special investigations into child labour in Uzbekistan

Strasbourg, 29/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission does not believe it necessary at this stage to carry out a special investigation into child labour in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan, as requested by human rights charities in June this year - a request relayed to the European Parliament by a cross-bench group of MEPs, who urged EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht later that month to suspend the preferences granted to Uzbekistan by the EU if the allegations were to be...

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