Uzbek teachers, nurses ‘forced’ to clean streets and harvest wheat
Nurses and teachers in Uzbekistan are being forced by officials to clean streets, plant trees and harvest wheat or face…
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Workers At Kazakh Pipeline Firm End Strike After Promise Of Salary Raise
Striking workers at an oil and natural-gas pipeline producing company in western Kazakhstan have been promised a salary increase by…
Submission by Human Rights Watch to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Kazakhstan
This submission is for consideration during the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ review Kazakhstan. It focuses on the…
Hundreds of Villages Untouched by Turkmenistan’s Rural Development Program
A rural development program has been in effect in Turkmenistan since 2007. The state media have given it a variety…
Turkmen Cotton Harvest Still Relies on Forced Labor – 2018 Campaign Review
The production and harvesting of cotton in Turkmenistan remains heavily reliant on a system of forced labor despite the use…
Turkmenistan: Age of Might and Happiness in Crisis
Crisis in Turkmenistan. In 2018 citizens of one of the world’s richest countries stand in queues for basic foodstuffs: bread,…
Spanish-Owned Chemical Company Implicated in Forced Labour with Tragic Consequences
24-year-old Sohibjon Mutalibov, an employee of Ammofos-Maxam, the largest producer of mineral fertilizers in Uzbekistan, was forcibly sent to pick…
Exclusive: ILO Director-General in Uzbekistan
International Labor Organization’s Director-General Guy Ryder recently visited Uzbekistan, meeting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and other high level officials to discuss…