Turkmenistan: Free Gaspar Matalaev, end forced and child labour
Human rights defender Gaspar Matalaev has now spent more than two years in prison for the ‘crime’ of documenting the…
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Turkmenistan’s cotton harvest campaign continues despite stillborn crop
In Turkmenistan, it is half-way through the cotton harvesting season. Despite the crop failure and empty cotton fields, local government…
Twelve major brands sign Turkmen Cotton Pledge
To coincide with the Turkmen president’s attendance at the UN General Assembly – the first time since 2015 – apparel…
French Journalist Detained In Kazakhstan While Preparing Report On 2011 Deadly Protests
Prado’s interpreter, Danara Ismetova, told RFE/RL by phone that police on September 27 detained her and Prado in Aqtau, the…
Turkmenistan: Bus Crash Injures Dozens of Cotton Pickers
Dozens of people have been injured in a bus accident and have been taken to the hospital, eyewitnesses reported to…
Brands should boycott Turkmenistan cotton over use of forced and child labour
Anti-Slavery International is urging all brands to pledge not to knowingly source cotton from Turkmenistan due to systematic forced and…
Measuring Forced Labour in an Authoritarian Context – An Evaluation of ILO Third Party Monitoring in Uzbekistan
Corruption and regimes of forced labour in Uzbekistan are closely entwined. This is exhibited most acutely in the cotton sector.…
United States Maintains Strong Stand Against Forced Labor in Turkmenistan’s Cotton Production
The U.S. State Department announced today that the government of Turkmenistan remains in the lowest possible ranking, Tier 3, in…
U.S. Decision Fails Forced Labor Victims in Uzbekistan.
Washington, DC – Today the U.S. government upgraded the Uzbek government’s ranking in its 2018 Trafficking in Persons Report to…
Invisible and exploited in Kazakhstan: New Report Sheds Light on the Plight of Kyrgyz Migrant Workers and Their Family Members
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring Central Asian states are forced to migrate to…