Author: Lynn Schweisfurth

UGF working visit to Uzbekistan

Mar 28, 2020

Originally published in Kun.uz on January 28, 2020 From January 29 to February 6, representatives of the international coalition Cotton Campaign will pay a working visit to Uzbekistan, the MFA press service reported. According...

Umida Niyazova: Window dressing reforms in Uzbekistan preventing real political opposition

Mar 28, 2020

The original article by Glenn Kates in Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on January 6, 2020 TASHKENT — If you happen to be in Uzbekistan’s capital in the next few months, you’re likely to hear the number three a...

UGF monitoring suggests the use of forced labor at a larger scale than the ILO

Mar 28, 2020

The original article by Gautam Naik in the S&P GLOBAL MARKET INTELLIGENCE December 18, 2019 In early October 2019, two men from the tax department of Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh region knocked on the door of a 36-year-old...

Abolition of state quotas and purchases removed “a key stimulant”

Mar 28, 2020

The original article by Shukhrat Khurramov with Christopher Rickleton in the International Business Times 11/11/19 AT 12:22 AM For years, nurse Shokhidakhon Khasanova was signed out of hospital every autumn to spend weeks...