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"Commissioner De Gucht, one of the international trade dossiers for which I was appointed rapporteur relates to the extension of the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and Uzbekistan on textiles. However, the use of forced child labour for harvesting cotton makes it difficult to adopt a strictly technical approach to the protocol. In actual fact, at the beginning of October, hundreds of children will be forced to harvest cotton by hand in order to supplement the shortage of adult labour. This is an extreme form of labour for children who, according to NGOs, are punished by those in charge if they fail to meet the quotas they have been set. Uzbekistan’s ratification of the International Labour Organisation conventions on the minimum employment age and the elimination of the most severe forms of forced child labour are a positive sign, but these actions actually fall short in terms of their implementation.
My question is: How does the European Commission see that this situation can be resolved, given that Parliament cannot ignore Uzbekistan’s failure to respect children’s fundamental rights?"@en1
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