Brussels, 05/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament (EP) foreign affairs committee agreed unanimously on Tuesday 4 October to recommend that a textile trade agreement between the EU and Uzbekistan be frozen. They question the extension of the provisions of the EU-Uzbekistan partnership and cooperation agreement to the bilateral textile trade when forced child labour in the cotton fields is widespread in the country. More than a million children from the age of seven are taken to...