SOAS Report: Forced child labour in cotton industry in Uzbekistan
Source: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cccac/events/cotton-sector-in-central-asia-2005/49842.pdf
"It has to be the largest regular state-driven act of child exploitation anywhere in the world. The annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan depends on the forced labour of some 2.7 million children, who are all removed from school for six to eight weeks to work in the fields and enrich the elites of the country's authoritarian regime."
Andrew Stroehlein
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