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…
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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…
Human rights organisations and ILO experts confirm the mass use of forced labour in the cotton industry of Uzbekistan
The infamous forced labour practice in Uzbekistan is still widespread. Two detailed reports on the subject have been released at…
Document of Evidence: Public Sector Employees in Samarkand Massively Mobilized to Carry out Reconstruction Works
On July 29, the popular Uzbek news website www.kun.uz published an article written by the journalist Tura Murod, who had…
Head of District Educational Department: “Teachers, not the farmers need the cotton”
On 21 July 2017, the Uzbek website www.sof.uz posted the audio recording of a meeting of school directors and heads…
Kazakhstan: Sentencing of Union Leader a Travesty of Justice
The ITUC has condemned the sentence handed down against trade union leader Larisa Kharkova by a Kazakhstan court today as…
Apotheosis of Kyrgyz justice
The President of Kyrgyzstan once again celebrates his victory. Almazbek Atambayev could manage to outdo his predecessors in his state…
Tukmenistan
The Government of Turkmenistan does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making…