NEW YORK | Fri Sep 9, 2011 5: 37 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - the New York fashion week organizers have cancelled a show provided by designer daughter of the leader of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, who has been accused of human rights abuses.

Gulnara Karimova was going to present its collection of spring-summer 2012 Guli on September 15 at New York fashion week. Karimova showed his collection in the event in September of last year, but his family connections only reached the headlines this week.

His father's 73 years has ruled the nation in Central Asia of 28 million since 1989. Human rights groups accuse the hard former Communist boss, who enjoys great power and not brooks no dissent, violate basic freedoms and blocking of democracy.

"As a result of various concerns that we have cancelled the Guli show," a spokeswoman for IMG, organized by the New York fashion week, said in a statement.

Educated at Harvard Karimova, 39, who is also Ambassador of Uzbekistan Spain and the United Nations in Geneva, it was not immediately available for comment.

A Declaration on 8 September promote the Guli show said that it would be "thirty feature search in natural silk and organic cotton, leather ornaments, fabrics of Uzbekistan rare as shoi, intricate ikat prints - all updated with cuts and contemporary forms".

Nearly 100 designers show their collections for the spring/summer 2012 at fashion week in New York, which began Thursday, and dozens more are demonstrating elsewhere around the city to coincide with the biannual event.

Human Rights Watch said he was pleased the fashion week in New York that "already does not exhibit a designer representing a repressive Government."

"The message is clear that abusers may not clean up their image at the expense of human rights," said Steve Swerdlow, Uzbekistan researcher for Human Rights Watch. "Companies need to act to ensure that unconsciously do not complete supporting abusers again".

Edited by Mohammad Zargham (Michelle Nichols reports)

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