 In September 2011, Karimova′s planned spring 2012 fashion show at New York’s Fashion Week was cancelled after Human Rights Watch and other organizations had drawn attention to her connection to her father’s government and its record on torture, and child and forced labour.According to Human Rights Watch, up to two million Uzbek children are forced to leave school each year for two months to pick cottona fabric woven throughout Karimova’s designs.However the fashion show was eventually held in New York, with the location changed to Cipriani.