"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. |
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| Imprint: | [New York, N.Y.] : Human Rights Watch, [2017]. |
| Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations, color maps, color photographs. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253073 |
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"We can't refuse to pick cotton" : forced and child labor linked to World Bank Group investments in Uzbekistan. |
Table of Contents:
- Summary
- The World Bank's Unsuccessful "Mitigation" of Forced Labor
- Threats and Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders
- The Way Forward for the Government of Uzbekistan
- The Way Forward for the World Bank, International Finance Corporation
- Recommendations: To the World Bank
- To the International Finance Corporation (IFC)
- To the World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors
- To the Government of Uzbekistan
- To the International Labour Organization (ILO)
- To Indorama and Other Textile Companies Operating in Uzbekistan
- To Commercial Banks Operating in Uzbekistan
- Methodology
- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
- I. Uzbekistan's Cotton System and the World Bank: Uzbekistan's Cotton System, Forced Labor, and Past Concerns of Widespread Child Labor: Reduction in Child Labor
- World Bank and Uzbekistan: Complaint Filed Against the World Bank
- New World Bank Group Investments
- II. Evidence of Forced and Child Labor and Links to World Bank Group Projects: A. Ongoing Evidence of Systematic Forced Labor and Continuing Child Labor in Uzbekistan's Cotton Sector
- Involuntary Labor
- Penalties and Threats of Penalties for Refusing to Work
- Ongoing Child Labor
- B. Forced and Child Labor in Beruni, Ellikkala, and Turtkul, Karakalpakstan: College Students and College Teachers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields
- Land assignments to colleges
- Schoolteachers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields
- Healthcare Workers Forced to Work in Cotton Fields
- Families Forced to Work in the Cotton Fields for Child Benefits, Welfare Payments
- Public and Private Sector Businesses Required to Provide Workers to Work in Cotton Fields or Pay for Replacement Workers
- Child Labor
- III. Impact on education
- Falsifying attendance to hide forced labor
- Disruptions to Colleges
- Undermining Quality of Schools
- IV. Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders, Forced Laborers, and Complainants: Detention of and Reprisals against Human Rights Defenders and Journalists Monitoring Forced Labor Practices
- Reprisals against Complainants
- V. World Bank Failures: Response to Forced Labor in World Bank Project Areas
- The Inadequacy of the World Bank's Mitigation Measures
- Government Required to Ensure Financial Institutions, Farmers Comply with Labor Laws
- Third Party Monitoring Insufficient, Misleading, Not Independent
- Feedback Mechanism
- Training of World Bank Beneficiaries on Prohibitions on Child and Forced Labor
- Additional Measures in South Karakalpakstan Project
- World Bank's Emphasis on Horticulture, Despite Emerging Signs of Forced Labor
- Inadequate Measures to Prevent, Respond to Reprisals
- VI. International Finance Corporation Failures
- Complaint Filed Against IFC Investments
- VII. Human Rights Standards: International and Uzbek Labor Standards: Forced Labor Defined
- Child Labor Defined
- Uzbek Law on Child and Forced Labor
- The World Bank Group and Labor Standards
- World Bank Group's Human Rights Obligations
- Companies' Human Rights Responsibilities
- Acknowledgments.