The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) together with the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights, Sherpa and solicitor Guido Ehrler filed seven complaints against European cotton traders buying cotton from Uzbekistan in Germany, Switzerland, France and the UK. The Swiss National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD has now responded to the complaint, in line with the UK NCP.
ECCHR and its partners allege that the named traders support the systematic use of forced child labour and forced labour in the Uzbek cotton harvest.
In February, the UK NCP accepted the two complaints filed in the UK for further examination. The Swiss NCP has followed suit and will now open the mediation process.
ECCHR welcomes this decision and hopes that it will encourage similar responses from the German and French NCPs in due course.
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