13yo girl who had to collect boxes at bazaar in Osh to provide family nominated for International Children’s Peace Prize
Aychurek Sulaimanova, a 13-year-old girl from Osh who was forced to collect boxes at a bazaar for a living and…
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Uzbekistan’s new leader fails his first test
One year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields shows how…
Uzbekistan: school directors speak out about regular physical abuse by local government official
A video shot in secret and posted online shows a district official in Uzbekistan beating and humiliating several principals of…
Uzbekistan Reducing Cotton Fields But Forced Labor Remains
Uzbekistan is cutting back on its cotton cultivation to make way for fruit and vegetable fields. While that happens, however,…
Turkmenistan kicks off mobilization of civil servants for cotton season
Reports from the Turkmen regions of Mary and Lebap said that the authorities have started summoning civil servants for the…
Conviction of trade union leaders: “Another nail in the coffin of the independent trade union movement in Kazakhstan”
The global trade union movement is calling on the government of Kazakhstan to review the conviction of a prominent labour…
Justice for Larisa Kharkova, Nurbek Kushakbaev and Amin Eleusinov
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has written to the President of Kazakhstan and the EU’s Foreign Affairs Representative demanding…
IndustriALL condemns mock trials of union activists in Kazakhstan
IndustriALL addressed to the leadership of Kazakhstan demanding to influence the situation and review the unjustified court sentencing of Larisa…
A Peek Behind the World Bank’s Mask
On June 27 we released a joint report documenting forced and child labor linked to the World Bank’s agriculture projects…
RFE/RL Correspondent Achilova Threatened With Death In Turkmenistan
WASHINGTON — RFE/RL Turkmen correspondent Soltan Achilova reports (in Turkmen) she was threatened with death on July 29, while en…