LIVERPOOL.- A new exhibition at the International Slavery Museum draws attention to forced labour and human rights abuses in the cotton industry. “White Gold: the true cost of cotton”, runs from 16 September 2011 to 2 September 2012. The exhibition, run in partnership with the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), tells how Uzbekistan, one of the largest cotton exporters in the world, forcibly conscripts hundreds of thousands of its citizens, including young children, to work in its billion dollar cotton industry. The Uzbek government is the main beneficiary of this forced labour, demanding high production quotas and retaining rigid control over the exports. It includes eight photographs of cotton workers in Uzbekistan, explores how the cotton supply chain works and how we as consumers ar