Court Orders Continued Detention of Blogger Nafosat Ollashukurova in Psychiatric Hospital
On November 28, the Khorezm Regional Civil Court rejected the request of Nafosat Ollashukurova’s lawyer to release her from forcible…
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We stand for decent work without violence, discrimination and harassment!
This year, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, celebrated on 25 November, and 16 days of activism…
What Is the Reason for the Continued Practice of Forced Cotton Picking in Uzbekistan?
A content of the document suggests that a super-centralized management system based on command-and-control methods, forcing farmers to grow and…
UN CEDAW calls on Kyrgyz and Kazakh authorities to abolish discriminatory lists of professions prohibited for women
United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UN CEDAW) adopted recommendations to Kazakhstan and formed a list…
Teachers toil in cotton fields as Tajikistan tries to fix trade imbalance
Farmers are forced to grow it. Teachers are forced to pick it. And though everyone loses, the government still thinks…
The Monitoring Mission developed recommendations to the Governments of the Central Asia Republics
The participants of the Third Coordination Meeting of the International Labour Rights Monitoring Mission for Central Asia convened in Bishkek…
Cotton and Corporate Responsibility: Fighting Forced Labor in Xinjiang and Uzbekistan
There are considerable differences with regard to forced labor in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang, but there is an underlying corporate responsibility…
Uzbekistan: Efforts Underway to End Forced Labor
The Cotton Campaign met with the government of Uzbekistan in Washington last week to discuss reform efforts to end forced…
Kazakhstan: union leader Erlan Baltabay imprisoned again
The ITUC is calling for the release of Erlan Baltabay, a leader of the Independent Oil and Energy Workers’ Union…
For the sake of workers, Uzbekistan is privatising its cotton industry
Under the blazing sun in a cloudless blue sky, green foliage droops with unfurling white cotton bolls. In the Fergana…