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A young boy picking cotton in September 2011 in Uzbekistan. It is estimated that the Uzbek government forcibly mobilizes between 1.5-2 million children across various regions of Uzbekistan to pick cotton and meet official Uzbek government quotas for cotton production.
© 2011 Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights