乌兹别克斯坦棉花从美国童工产品名单中移除

Uzbek cotton removed from US child labour products list
Uzbekcottonhas been removed from a list of products produced with child labour, a notice posted on the Federal Register last month by the US Bureau of International Labour Affairs announced. AN International Labour Organisation (ILO)reporton the 2018 Uzbek cotton harvest also concluded that child labour can no longer be considered a serious concern there.
The US departments of labour, state, and homeland security “have determined that the use of forced child labour in the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has been significantly reduced to isolated incidents,” the notice read.
While forced labour remains a reality in Uzbekistan, the ILO and other world organisations are reportedly encouraged by the UzbekGovernment’s efforts to eliminate it.
“Uzbekistan demonstrated major progress in the eradication of child labour and forced labour in the cotton harvest of 2018. Forced labour during the harvest was reduced by 48 percent compared to 2017,” The ILO report’s executive summary said.
The ILO estimates that 170,000 people were forced to pick cotton in the 2018 harvest. While that is a large number of people, it represents just 6.8 per cent of the total force of cotton pickers mobilised for the 2018 harvest.
The ILO report also lists 206 cases of local officials and managers who were punished for forced labour during the 2018 cotton harvest.
译文如下：
乌兹别克斯坦棉花从美国童工产品名单中移除
美国国际劳工事务局上月在《联邦公报》上发布公告称，乌兹别克斯坦棉花已从童工产品名单中删除。国际劳工组织(ILO)关于乌兹别克斯坦2018年棉花收成的一份报告也得出结论，童工不再是该国的重点关注。
该通知称，美国劳工部、国务院和国土安全部“已确定，乌兹别克斯坦棉花收获过程中使用强迫童工的事件已显著减少至孤立事件”。
尽管强制劳动在乌兹别克斯坦仍然存在，但据报道，乌兹别克斯坦政府消除强迫劳动的努力使劳工组织和其他世界组织受到鼓舞。
“乌兹别克斯坦在消除2018年棉花收获中使用童工和强迫劳动方面取得了重大进展。与2017年相比，收获季节的强迫劳动减少了48%。”
国际劳工组织估计，2018年棉花丰收时，有17万人被迫采摘棉花。尽管这是一大批人，但仅占2018年棉花采摘工人的6.8%。
国际劳工组织的报告还列出了2018年棉花收获季节，206名当地官员和经理因强迫劳动而受到惩罚的案例。