Uzbekistan: The Hard Labor Behind Soft Silk
As has always happened at the end of every May, Nasiba Barkasheva’s home burst with frenetic activity as the silkworm…
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Human Rights Defender Nuraddin Jumaniyazov dies in detention
After six months it has become known that Nuraddin Jumaniyozov (68), who planned to set up a trade union for…
Kazakhstan is in the top 10 worst countries for workers’ rights
The latest ranking of workers’ rights includes the global top ten, of which no country in 2017 should want to…
Kazakhstan: a showcase for shrinking civic space
The Nazarbayev regime is using informal and formal methods to squeeze out NGOs, independent media and trade unions. Western governments…
Kazakhstan: Union Leader Gets 2-Year Jail Sentence
A labour union leader in Kazakhstan who helped mobilize oil workers into defending their right to independent union representation has…
Kazakhstan Jails Union Leader For Two Years
A court in Kazakhstan has sentenced labor union leader Amin Eleusinov to two years in prison. The court handed down…
Free Nurbek Kushakbayev! Support independent workers’ organisation in Kazakhstan!
Trades unionists have launched an international campaign for the release of Nurbek Kushakbayev, who was jailed this month for his…
Investors who profit as oil workers face repression
The companies that this month helped to jail trade union leader Nurbek Kushakbayev are linked, via Kazmunaigaz, Kazakhstan’s state-controlled oil…
Kazakhstan: Union Leader Sentenced to Prison
The ITUC has denounced the sentencing of Nurbek Kushakbayev, Deputy Chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan,…
Three years imprisonment for documenting forced and child labor
Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN) reporter Gaspar Matalaev remains imprisoned on false charges of fraud, despite his family’s hope that he…