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World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', children, crime, ethics, governmnt, humanrights, child slavery, Uzbekistan, cotton )

Kathy
- 280 days ago - walkfree.org
This September, the government of Uzbekistan will close down schools across the country and force over one million children as young as ten to pick cotton. The conditions are so brutal that exhaustion and heat stroke are common - yet the Uzbek government
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Abbe A. (109)
Thursday August 16, 2012, 6:23 pm
cruel
 

Jason S. (55)
Thursday August 16, 2012, 6:53 pm
thanks, signed
 

Vicky P. (346)
Thursday August 16, 2012, 8:18 pm
S and N
 

Fran F. (100)
Thursday August 16, 2012, 8:57 pm
Signed and shared in support of the children of Uzbekistan who deserve to go to school, not perform slave labor!
 

Judy C. (107)
Thursday August 16, 2012, 9:35 pm
Signed. This is terrible. Thanks, Kathy.
 

Emma S. (135)
Friday August 17, 2012, 5:19 am
Done! Thank you, Kathy.
 

Roger M. (0)
Friday August 17, 2012, 8:40 am
Complete no-brainer. Signed.
 

Elizabeth O. (74)
Friday August 17, 2012, 4:12 pm
Signed.
 

Duane B. (172)
Friday August 17, 2012, 5:09 pm
Signed and Noted.
 

paul m. (98)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 6:23 am

Signed......but it's us that buys it in the end.....
 

Joy S. (0)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 6:23 am
Signed...save the children!
 

Jutta N. (169)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 6:36 am
There is no excuse for such abuse and Zara also must act against it! Signed
 

Veronique L. (171)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 8:51 am
So sad... signed!
 

Allan Yorkowitz (191)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 10:44 am
Change the name, its still Soviet mentality as it lowest.
 

Muriel Servaege (16)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 1:54 pm
Noted and signed.
 

Ludger W. (68)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 2:25 pm
noted and soigned, ty
 

Susie S. (4)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 3:11 pm
signed and shared
 

Mary Donnelly (43)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 3:57 pm
Thanks Kathy--signed and sent..

 

Gloria H. (80)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 7:31 pm
wow! Even Walmart against this!! Raising cotton is bad for environment, making kids work like serfs is bad for morale and welfare of children. I wonder if they were to switch to hemp if there is less labor intensive...if there has to be a national crop, why not hemp which is a weed and not that hard to grow. It still could be exported as a textile.
 

Sheila D. (18)
Saturday August 18, 2012, 9:35 pm
Noted and signed. Thanks Kathy. We need to encourage our country and others to start growing more hemp for clothing, paper, rope, etc.
 

Henrik Thorsen (20)
Sunday August 19, 2012, 7:13 am
Signed.
 

monka blanke (66)
Wednesday August 22, 2012, 12:13 pm
signed, start to grow hemp (by adults), that's better.
 

Sergio Padilla (50)
Monday September 3, 2012, 8:40 am
Done
 
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