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…
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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…
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…