Corporate Integrity Risks Threaten Uzbekistan’s Cotton Cluster Experiment
Ulster University and the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights has released the first sectorwide study on...
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Uzbekistan: Fair Recruitment, Effective Accountability Needed to End Forced Labor as Independent Labor Monitors Harassed, Arbitrarily Detained
June 23, 2020 (Washington, D.C. / Berlin) – A new report released today by Uzbek Forum for Human...
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Human Rights Activists Isolated for 14 Days after Monitoring Cotton Fields
Tashkent human rights activists Elena Urlaeva and Solmaz Akhmedova, and activists Karimjon...
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Remembering Andijan
On the fifteenth anniversary of the Andijan massacre in May 2005 that killed an estimated 500...
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Local Authorities Continue to Show Contempt for Farmers and Rule of Law
On April 28, 2020, the hokimiyat of the Kuyi-Chirchik district of the Tashkent region sent...
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Sardoba Dam Collapse – Another Example of Uzbekistan’s ‘Old Ways’?
As a result of the dam break at the Sardoba reservoir, serious damage was caused to settlements,...
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On the other side of the fence: Report on human rights monitoring in places of detention in Uzbekistan
Uzbek prison guard: “Your life costs only 50 cents. It is a price of a piece of paper used to...
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Uzbekistan: New Law Further Undermines Lawyer Client Confidentiality
Amendments expand the power of the prosecutor to conduct surveillance of communications between...
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Can communities lead their own development in places where civil society is severely restricted? Development banks think so.
By Ishita Petkar and Lynn Schweisfurth In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on a...
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Failure to Register – Please Submit Again: Uzbek Human Rights NGO Rejected Once More
The latest refusal by the Uzbek authorities to register Chiroq, an independent human rights...
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COTTON CLUSTERS AND THE DESPAIR OF UZBEK FARMERS: LAND CONFISCATIONS, BLANK CONTRACTS AND FAILED PAYMENTS
Executive summary The privatization of Uzbekistan’s cotton sector has led to the establishment of...
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Cotton Harvest in Uzbekistan – 2019
Findings of Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights Summary Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF)...
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