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World Bank urged to stop Uzbekistan loans over cotton labour

2015-11-25 12:02:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Groups including those representing global apparel retailers and importers, are urging the World Bank to suspend loans to Uzbekistan over concerns about the use of forced labour in this autumn's cotton harvest.

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Turkmenistan uses more forced labour in cotton harvest

2015-11-24 14:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

While Uzbekistan's use of forced labour to harvest cotton is well-documented, a new report says workers at a range of private and public-sector institutions have also been coerced to pick cotton in Turkmenistan this year, with children used in at least one area.

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Mixed feedback on cotton harvest labour in Uzbekistan

2015-11-24 13:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

Monitoring of workers during the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has offered a mixed assessment, with no systematic use of child labour found but "serious concerns" raised over the risk of forced labour.

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Paris climate change talks 'will provide false dawn in UK's contribution', warns Labour frontbencher

2015-11-22 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: A week before the long awaited talks on climate change, a Labour frontbencher has expressed concerns that the Paris conference will provide a false dawn in Britains contribution to combating global warming. Lisa Nandy, the shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, told The Independent on Sunday: I think David Cameron will be very conscious that he has to stand on the world stage and say the right things, but Im really worried about what will happen after Paris. She said she believed...

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Manitoba applauds Quebec court ruling in Air Canada labour case

2015-11-09 23:37:41| Airlines - Topix.net

Aveos Fleet Performance Inc.'s Winnipeg plant is shown in 2012, when it locked out about 400 unionized employees and told them not to return to work. Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger says his government welcomes a Quebec Court of Appeal ruling that orders Air Canada to keep maintenance operations in the province as well as in Quebec and Ontario.

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