Just a cotton pickin' minute...

[sandyRoe]

...or even less than a minute to sign and show your opposition to his particular form of child abuse.
Will you sign?
http://www.walkfree.o...2012&utm_medium=email

[sandyRoe]

* this particular...

[Dee Sa]

just signed sandy, hope it does some good Dee

[sandyRoe]

Thank you Dee Sa, every little helps.

[abstibus]

Signed.

[spotit3]

Signed.

[NOX]

In the absence of the ILO being able to oversee and observe, I think UNICEFS presence last year was a huge milestone couple with the agreed strategy of eliminating child labour during the cotton picking season which Uzbekistan has in place.
Whilst in a perfect world children would never have to work, Uzbekistan is a very poor country with around 12% of its entire worth being made up in the cotton harvest, and rationally I think that you cannot force or strong arm what is essentially a developing nation to be perfect immediately. Together with UNICEF they have in place a strategy to reduce and finally eliminate child labour by 2015, so it concerns me that other fashion houses are taking the moral highground and implying that nothing much is being done to address the problem- and of course it does give them all a huge dose of free advertising whilst at the same time running down a major competitor. Call me a cynic...

[daffy654]

Signed, shared on Facebook and Tweeted on Twitter.

[commoner]

Sensible answer as usual from Nox

[Graham-W]

I'm afraid I agree with NOX. Without children to help with the harvest the cotton would spoil and the farmers and their families would go hungry. Plans are in place to remove children from the fields within 3 years.
Our long school summer holidays were put in place so the children could help with the harvest. It was essential in those days, but increased mechanisation meant the children were less likely to be needed.

[maggiebee]

Signed, shared with all my e-mail friends and on another "chat" site.

[maggiebee]

Having read comments by Nox and Graham-W, I can see where they are coming from. Thinking back to my own childhood, I picked raspberries and strawberries
during the summer holidays and tatties during the autumn holiday. Money earned bought my school uniform.
Do these children get paid?

[Kiki-frog]

Done, and shared on Facebook

[commoner]

Tatie pickin' was great.. I was 10 years old and said I was 12 so I could go...1s.6d a day (seven and a half pence) and the biggest tatie you could find was a real boost for my lovely but poor mum.......wouldn't be allowed today, not on your nellie and I suspect the poor mums of the cotton pickin' kids wouldn't thank you for interfering there...

[Traci66]

Signed and shared.

[lcg]

i haven't signed, as it is not altogether clear where my details will be going. the site also uses cookies when you sign up and will contact you again. it's not that i don't agree with the principle, but i protect my internet address well. how many people read the terms and conditions before singing up i wonder?

[daffy654]

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