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Turkmenistan Cotton: Findings of Independent Civil Society Monitoring of the 2025 Cotton Harvest State-Imposed Forced Labor inthe Annual Cotton Harvest, High Risk in Global Supply Chains

Reports and papers2026-05-15

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Tashkent Region: Two Farmers Arrested for Defaulting on Cotton Loans

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.

Soldiers finish cotton harvest in Turkmenistan

An Uzbek farmer hanged himself after confiscation of his property

Labour Rights Laboratory in Central Asia

Statement of Executive Committee of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic

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Statement of PERC Youth Committee on Trade Unions in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Stop repression and physical attacks on leaders of independent unions; hands off Larisa Kharkova, Erlan Baltabai and Dmitriy Senyavskiy

Campaigners challenge U.N. over forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry