Statement of PERC Youth Committee on Trade Unions in Kazakhstan
On October the 22nd 2018, the Pan-European Regional Council (PERC) Executive Committee adopted a recommendation to the ITUC General Council…
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Kazakhstan: Stop repression and physical attacks on leaders of independent unions; hands off Larisa Kharkova, Erlan Baltabai and Dmitriy Senyavskiy
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Campaigners challenge U.N. over forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry
Rights groups on Friday disputed findings by the United Nations showing Uzbekistan has nearly eliminated forced labor from its cotton…
Union activists face new repression and attacks in Kazakhstan
Early in November, Dmitry Seniyavskiy, a trade union leader of the local branch of the Fuel and Energy Workers’ Union…
Cotton pickers struggle with low pay, poor crop in southern Turkmenistan
Harvesting by hand remains the norm in the cotton fields of Turkmenistan’s southern Mary region. Despite reports in the state-run…
Farmers, frontline defenders against antimicrobial resistance
FAO marks World Antibiotic Awareness Week by calling on farmers to boost farm hygiene Farmers have a vital role to…
Kazakhstan: Attack on Trade Union Leader
Dmitry Senyavskii, leader of the Karaganda region industrial-tier fuel and energy trade union, was hospitalized. His injuries prevented him from…
Uzbekistan tries to end the use of forced labour in the cotton fields
In some ways, there is nothing surprising about the videos that have been doing the rounds on social media in…
Forced labor remains the norm in Turkmenistan’s cotton fields
Thousands of people in Turkmenistan are again being forced to pick cotton. The autumn harvest began, however, on a positive…
Journalist Detained for Exposing Hokim Ordering Teachers and Doctors to Pick Cotton
On the evening of October 25, the journalist found out that the hokim of the Kushkupir district was holding a…