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…
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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…
Uzbekistan: Amidst reform effort, journalists and activists face criminal charges, arbitrary detention, forced psychiatric treatment
The Cotton Campaign calls on the Uzbek government to drop criminal charges against Mahmud Rajab, a poet, journalist, and human…
Government still restricting free reporting
In spite its rhetoric on reform, Uzbekistan is failing to overcome its habit of resorting to authoritarian practices when silencing…
Slight Relief for Teachers in Eastern Turkmenistan over Cotton Campaign
At least two secondary schools in Turkmenabat are easing up on compulsory participation in the annual cotton campaign, according to…
Kazakhstan Doing Everything To Keep Zhanaozen Activists Away From Proposed Rally
Following a wave of antigovernment protests across Kazakhstan earlier this month, activists from the volatile city of Zhanaozen say authorities…
Malokhat Eshankulova again restricted to travel abroad and in criminal proceedings
Malokhat Eshankulova, an independent journalist from Uzbekistan, was unable to fly to Warsaw, where the OSCE Human Rights Conference began…
Turkmen activist Gaspar Matalaev released
Turkmen labor rights activist Gaspar Matalaev walked free from prison on September 6, having served a spurious three-year sentence in…