Jasmine Guiness in John Rocha for EJF cotton campaign.
Jasmine says: "Cotton production today can be incredibly poisonous to the world’s ecosystems. We have had it too cheap for too long and now we have to pay a little more not just for the quality of our t-shirts but for the quality of the lives of the pickers, the producers and the planet"
Exploitation in the cotton Industry is something which millions of children face on a daily basis. Whether it is state enforced, or through child trafficking.
In Uzbekistan, the world’s 3rd largest exporter of cotton, roughly a third of the population are forced to work in conditions near slavery for the state run cotton industry. Many are children. Schools across the country are shut down for the cotton harvest as children from the age of 7 are sent to work for weeks in the fields, paid little or nothing, but benefiting their repressive government through this forced labour.
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