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16:47 Jan 22, 2015 |
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Norwegian to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Agriculture | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Diarmuid Kennan Ireland Local time: 13:09 | ||||||
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3 +5 | cotton harvest |
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cotton harvest Explanation: I don't really understand the question. It is indeed cotton harvest, and a quick Google search shows that they have been forcing adults as well as children 'as young as 10' to harvest cotton for decades there. There is even a short article about child labor in Uzbekistan on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_Uzbekistan http://www.cottoncampaign.org |
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cotton harvest Explanation: I've just been there :o) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 16 mins (2015-01-22 17:04:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The harvest wasn't on when I was there, but I was told that lack of investment since Soviet times means that there is no longer a basis for mechanical harvesting. So, schools, factories and businesses close so that 80-90% of the population can be forcibly recruited for 2-3 weeks to perform the harvest by hand. There are even stories of hospitals being emptied so that doctors, nurses and patients could be forced to work in the fields! I can't say how much truth there is to this. Like everything you hear in Uzbekistan, it has to be taken with a grain of salt (and a shot or two of vodka). |
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