Corruption and regimes of forced labour in Uzbekistan are closely entwined. This is exhibited most acutely in the cotton sector.…
The U.S. State Department announced today that the government of Turkmenistan remains in the lowest possible ranking, Tier 3, in…
Washington, DC – Today the U.S. government upgraded the Uzbek government’s ranking in its 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report to…
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring Central Asian states are forced to migrate to…
Uzbekistan, a leading producer of silk cocoons, relies on forced labor for their production, which violates the rights of farmers…
Turkmenistan may represent only 2% of the world’s cotton exports, but the rampant human rights violations in their cotton production…
A monitor from Uzbek-German Forum interviewed a farmer from the Khorezm region who described his experience with the command system…
Farmers in Uzbekistan’s tightly controlled agriculture sector have been ordered by state authorities to grow cotton since the waning days…
A first-ever delegation representing the Cotton Campaign presented recommendations on how to end systematic forced labor in the cotton sector…
The 96-page report, “‘We Pick Cotton Out of Fear’: Systematic Forced Labor and the Accountability Gap in Uzbekistan,” details how…