Turkmen Cotton Harvest Still Relies on Forced Labor – 2018 Campaign Review
The production and harvesting of cotton in Turkmenistan remains heavily reliant on a system of forced labor despite the use…
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Spanish-Owned Chemical Company Implicated in Forced Labour with Tragic Consequences
24-year-old Sohibjon Mutalibov, an employee of Ammofos-Maxam, the largest producer of mineral fertilizers in Uzbekistan, was forcibly sent to pick…
Exclusive: ILO Director-General in Uzbekistan
International Labor Organization’s Director-General Guy Ryder recently visited Uzbekistan, meeting President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and other high level officials to discuss…
Despite Commitment and Efforts, Systematic Forced Labor in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields was Present During the 2018 Harvest
Uzbekistan’s 2018 cotton harvest, which concluded in all regions of the country the first week of December, showcased the enormous…
CHALLENGING FEUDALISM IN LABOUR RELATIONS IN COTTON SECTOR OF UZBEKISTAN: STRATEGY AND TACTICS
INTERVIEW WITH ANDRE MROST. Andre Mrost has a PhD in physical geography and studied environmental impact of large irrigation projects,…
Seven Children Wrongly Vaccinated While Nurse is Sent to Pick Cotton
Radio Ozodlik has reported that seven children from 3 to 6 years old were incorrectly vaccinated while the nurse responsible…
Is Uzbekistan Free from Forced Cotton-Picking?
As monitored by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), almost all citizens of Uzbekistan involved in cotton-picking this year have worked…
Concluding Statement of the Laboratory on Labour Rights in Central Asia within the framework of the XII International Festival of Human Rights Documentary Films.
The Laboratory on Labour Rights, organised by the International Labour Rights Monitoring Mission in Central Asia as part of the…
Tashkent Region: Two Farmers Arrested for Defaulting on Cotton Loans
Two farmers from the village of Uzbekistan in the Akkurgan district of the Tashkent region, 39-year-old Sherali Toshiboev and 54-year-old…
Relatives of Sanjar Baratov, a 33-year-old farmer from the Jizzakh region in Uzbekistan, said that he took his own life because he felt desperate after Enforcement Bureau officers confiscated his property for failure to pay off a bank loan.
One of the soldiers told Ozodlik that despite the lack of cotton in the fields, ten thousand soldiers of the…