State-imposed cocoon production quotas, coercive contracting practices and delayed payments are forcing farmers and home-based producers of silkworm cocoons to…
Reports of police violence, threats and restrictions on lawyers’ activities raise serious concerns about the protection of legal professionals in…
Safeguards exist on paper, but are development banks prepared to confront the political realities that prevent those safeguards from functioning…
The Uzbek government is violating the human and labor rights of cotton and wheat farmers through a coercive state production…
How are countries implementing international labour standards? The annual report by the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of…
Isolated cases of forced labor point to deeper structural contradictions in how cotton production in Uzbekistan is still managed. Uzbekistan…
This report has been prepared for submission to the International Labour Organization to provide an analysis of the Republic of…