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Forced labour blights Turkmenistan cotton harvest
2016-01-25 13:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A final report on the 2015 cotton harvest in Turkmenistan says the government this year forced more people to pick cotton and ramped up the pressure to deliver harvest quotas in response to a late and low-yield harvest.
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Device makers face child labour claims
2016-01-19 01:00:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
An Amnesty report into child labour in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo raises questions for electronic firms.
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Uzbekistan still using forced labour in 2015
2015-12-18 16:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The government of Uzbekistan continued to use forced labour in 2015, a new report suggests, with more than 1m citizens compelled through various means to grow and pick cotton.
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US and Honduras sign landmark labour rights deal
2015-12-11 14:20:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
The US and Honduras have signed a landmark agreement on labour rights aimed at addressing gaps in the enforcement of Honduran labour laws identified in a US labour report earlier this year.
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VW labour boss says fresh emissions crisis has hit new car orders
2015-11-27 15:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Volkswagen is facing slowing orders for new cars, with consumers shunning the carmaker after it admitted to understating fuel usage and carbon dioxide emissions, VWs top labour representative said. There is caution in buying, the German companys works council chief Bernd Osterloh told reporters. The CO2 issue has triggered a greater crisis of confidence [in VW products] than the nitrogen [emissions] issue. VW said earlier this month it had manipulated the level of CO2 emissions in about...
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