Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Why you could be wearing
cotton picked by forced labor
White Gold. Cotton used
to be picked by slaves in southern states of America long ago. As no innovation
or improvement has been applied to the process, picking cotton is still a labor
intensive work.
Now a large amount of
cotton is produced in Central Asia, namely Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, in
slavery conditions. Those governments have been forcing their own citizens,
including children, to pick cotton in hot, hazardous and unsanitary conditions.
And they get nearly nothing but relief from being accused or humiliated by
their own government. Only the limited number of government elites enjoy profiting
from the produce.
So far, the international
community and human right groups have little succeeded in changing or improving
the situation. Sounds like North Korea, doesn’t it?
Enjoy reading and
learning how the cotton products you’re using or wearing produced.
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