"We can't refuse to pick cotton" : forced and child labor linked to World Bank Group investments in Uzbekistan /

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Author / Creator:Evans, Jessica (Jessica M.), author.
Imprint:[New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2017].
Description:120 pages : color illustrations, color maps, color photographs ; 27 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253071
Related Items:Online version: "We can't refuse to pick cotton" : forced and child labor linked to World Bank Group investments in Uzbekistan.
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Varying Form of Title:Forced and child labor linked to World Bank Group investments in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan : "We can't refuse to pick cotton"
Other authors / contributors:Gill, Allison, author.
Human Rights Watch (Organization), publisher, issuing body.
ISBN:9781623134891
1623134897
Notes:"June 2017"--Table of contents page.
"Written by Jessica Evans, senior researcher and advocate on international financial institutions at Human Rights Watch and Allison Gill, research and policy consultant at the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references.
Also issued online.
Summary:"This report details how the Uzbek government forced students, teachers, medical workers, other government employees, private-sector employees, and sometimes children to harvest cotton in 2015 and 2016, as well as to weed the fields and plant cotton in the spring of 2016. The government has threatened to fire people, stop welfare payments, and suspend or expel students if they refuse to work in the cotton fields"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Online version: Evans, Jessica "We can't refuse to pick cotton" : forced and child labor linked to World Bank Group investments in Uzbekistan. [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2017].

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505 0 0 |t Summary --  |t The World Bank's Unsuccessful "Mitigation" of Forced Labor --  |t Threats and Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders --  |t The Way Forward for the Government of Uzbekistan --  |t The Way Forward for the World Bank, International Finance Corporation --  |t Recommendations:  |t To the World Bank --  |t To the International Finance Corporation (IFC) --  |t To the World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors --  |t To the Government of Uzbekistan --  |t To the International Labour Organization (ILO) --  |t To Indorama and Other Textile Companies Operating in Uzbekistan --  |t To Commercial Banks Operating in Uzbekistan --  |t Methodology --  |t Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations --  |g I.  |t Uzbekistan's Cotton System and the World Bank:  |t Uzbekistan's Cotton System, Forced Labor, and Past Concerns of Widespread Child Labor:  |t Reduction in Child Labor --  |t World Bank and Uzbekistan:  |t Complaint Filed Against the World Bank --  |t New World Bank Group Investments --  |g II.  |t Evidence of Forced and Child Labor and Links to World Bank Group Projects:  |g A.  |t Ongoing Evidence of Systematic Forced Labor and Continuing Child Labor in Uzbekistan's Cotton Sector --  |t Involuntary Labor --  |t Penalties and Threats of Penalties for Refusing to Work --  |t Ongoing Child Labor --  |g B.  |t Forced and Child Labor in Beruni, Ellikkala, and Turtkul, Karakalpakstan:  |t College Students and College Teachers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields --  |t Land assignments to colleges --  |t Schoolteachers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields --  |t Healthcare Workers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields --  |t Families Forced to Work in the Cotton Fields for Child Benefits, Welfare Payments --  |t Public and Private Sector Businesses Required to Provide Workers to Work in Cotton Fields or Pay for Replacement Workers --  |t Child Labor --  |g III.  |t Impact on education --  |t Falsifying attendance to hide forced labor --  |t Disruptions to Colleges --  |t Undermining Quality of Schools --  |g IV.  |t Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders, Forced Laborers, and Complainants:  |t Detention of and Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Monitoring Forced Labor Practices --  |t Reprisals against Complainants --  |g V.  |t World Bank Failures:  |t Response to Forced Labor in World Bank Project Areas --  |t The Inadequacy of the World Bank's Mitigation Measures --  |t Government Required to Ensure Financial Institutions, Farmers Comply with Labor Laws --  |t Third Party Monitoring Insufficient, Misleading, Not Independent --  |t Feedback Mechanism --  |t Training of World Bank Beneficiaries on Prohibitions on Child and Forced Labor --  |t Additional Measures in South Karakalpakstan Project --  |t World Bank's Emphasis on Horticulture, Despite Emerging Signs of Forced Labor --  |t Inadequate Measures to Prevent, Respond to Reprisals --  |g VI.  |t International Finance Corporation Failures --  |t Complaint Filed Against IFC Investments --  |g VII.  |t Human Rights Standards:  |t International and Uzbek Labor Standards:  |t Forced Labor Defined --  |t Child Labor Defined --  |t Uzbek Law on Child and Forced Labor --  |t The World Bank Group and Labor Standards --  |t World Bank Group's Human Rights Obligations --  |t Companies' Human Rights Responsibilities --  |t Acknowledgments. 
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