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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-12-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EC-Uzbekistan partnership and cooperation agreement and bilateral trade in textiles (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111214.30.3-492-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-14-Speech-3-493-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Murphy2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, let us be absolutely explicit about the situation in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan. According to some NGOs, up to 2 million children, some as young as seven, are forced to work in these fields. They face really horrific conditions – 10-hour working days, exposure to harmful pesticides – and risk physical harm or expulsion from school if they refuse to do it. Despite that and despite the condemnations, including by the EU, of the conditions in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan, the reality is that the government of Uzbekistan still benefits from reduced tariffs under GSP. Again and again in this House, the gulf between words and actions is great. That gulf should be closed here. The Uzbek Government’s blanket denials are simply not credible, given the multitude of independent reports and the fact that the government refuses to allow access to the ILO. The attempts by the right wing in this Parliament to water down the report are outrageous in my opinion. They should answer to a 14-year old boy from Uzbekistan who said: ‘We’re really afraid of getting expelled from school. Every September 2, the first day of school, the Director warns us that if we don’t go out to pick cotton, we might as well not come back to school. The school administration does everything to create the impression that the schoolchildren themselves are the ones who have decided to go out to the cotton fields. But just try to ‘voluntarily’ not go out to the harvest! We’re all forced to obey this unwritten law’. No consent should be given to this agreement and there must be no ambiguity about that. Consent can only be considered after the ILO has been allowed access and after the practice of forced child labour has been ended."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; INTA (2011-04-06--2012-01-18)3 member; EUL/NGL (2011-04-01--2012-01-22)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2011-04-05--2012-03-04)3 unknown; Socialist Party (2011-04-01--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2011-04-05--2012-01-18)3 substitute; PETI (2011-04-05--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2011-04-06--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Paul Murphy,"1 "on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group."1
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