Continental Clothing has become, to my knowledge, the first large scale mainstream clothing company to ensure that none of its cotton comes from Uzbekistan. Uzbek cotton is a state monopoly, relying on slave labour and the forced labour of hundreds of thousands of children working in appalling conditions for little, or often no, pay.
http://www.continentalclothing.com/?P=55&name=Uzbekistan
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2005/08/iwpr_the_cost_o.html
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2005/08/sanctions_again.html
Continental are to be congratulated on this initiative. We need to keep up the pressure on other manufacturers and retailers to follow suit.