Uzbek Government continue to lie about forced labour in their cotton fields As Fashion Weeks around the world were in full swing this month, EJF launched a new report called Slave Nation revealing how thousands of Uzbek children were forced to work in poor conditions, hand-picking cotton in the last harvest.

With evidence that little has changed despite the promises of the Uzbek Government and with the spring planting season just around the corner, EJF asks whether it will be children forced to pick the crop again when the harvest comes around later this year?

This report was welcomed by a number of retailers who have taken action to ban Uzbek cotton from their supply chains until abuses are resolved and will be used to make the case for others who have not taken action, to do so, urgently.