TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan's prime minister pledged last month to end child labor in the country's cotton fields. But as the harvest season gets under way, human rights activists say children as young as 13 are being put to work under grueling conditions, despite extreme measures to recruit adult labor.
"Every year, from the beginning of the first days of September, the entire country is immersed in a cotton hysteria," said Hakim, a human rights activist based in Tashkent, who asked his last name not be used for fear of persecution.
Read more at The Washington Times
