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Decade-Long Uzbek Cotton Boycott Ends

Cotton fields in Uzbekistan. Shutterstock.
Cotton fields in Uzbekistan. (Shutterstock)
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A coalition of retail trade associations, human-rights organisations and investor groups has ended its global boycott of cotton from Uzbekistan, citing a breakthrough in the elimination of systematic child and forced labour from the nation’s cotton fields.

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