uzbekistan

Ever heard of the Tatars?

August 11, 2009, by 1 comment

screenshot_temp1You may have never noticed it before, but on the right sidebar of this blog, there’s an “Un-reached People Group Of The Day” banner…

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Uzbekistan forced to stop child labor (?)

May 26, 2009, by 1 comment

I’ve posted in the past about how messed up the human rights situation is in Uzbekistan.

Small children are forced to pick cotton instead of go to school for weeks at a time during the fall.

The cotton is grown in fields that the government essentially seizes, and then the cotton is sold for the government’s profit to other countries.

I was suprised this weekend to come across this article about how that may be coming to an end:

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More Human Rights Abuse in Uzbekistan

April 28, 2009, by 1 comment

This won’t make your 5:00 news, but it’s way more important than the latest defector from the Republican party…

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More news from Uzbekistan

April 1, 2009, by No comments yet

Just came across this article saying that one of the very last moves of the Bush administration was to designate Uzbekistan as one of the top 8 religious rights violators in the world.

It makes me sad that the Obama administration will probably completely ignore this because they ‘need’ to build an air force base there.

Here’s how the article kicks off:

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Child Labor In Uzbekistan

November 13, 2008, by 1 comment

I just came across yet another article about child labor in Uzbekistan*.

Here’s how it starts:

Despite signing two international treaties and adopting domestic legislation prohibiting the use of child labor, Uzbekistan continued to rely on a “state-orchestrated mass mobilization of children to bring in the 2008 cotton harvest,” a new report has found.

By the end of September, with the pace of cotton collection lagging way behind harvest projections, officials in some areas ordered students as young as first graders into the fields…

I witnessed this first-hand a couple of years ago. The human rights situation in Uzbekistan is terrible.

Please take time to pray for the country. Pray for their wicked president. Pray against all the corruption. Pray for God to remove the strongholds that make that place so terrible for the nationals. Pray for the missionaries there. Pray for the believers there. Pray for God’s kingdom to come…

*I’ve written about this issue before here, here, and here.