Punished for Obedience: Officials Become Victims of Uzbekistan’s Cotton System
Dilfuza Toshmatova, deputy hokim of Sariosiyo district of Surkhandarya region, became the first...
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Deputy hokim of Sariosiyo district, Surkhandarya region, forces mahalla employees to find pickers
A video has surfaced showing a local Uzbek official coercing community workers to pick cotton and recruit others under threat of job loss. The footage reveals deep-rooted pressure tactics amid a labor shortage, despite legal prohibitions on forced labor.
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Sandbags Added to Harvested Cotton in Andijan under Management’s Orders
At cotton receiving points in the Boz district of the Andijan region in Uzbekistan, bags filled...
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Cotton Harvest Chronicle 2018, Issue 3
The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF) continues to monitor forced labor during this year’s...
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Cotton 2018: “Women and men are sleeping in the same room, divided only by a curtain”
105 workers from cultural institutions in the Jizzakh region are collecting cotton in a...
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Cotton Harvest Chronicle 2018, Issue 2, October 1, 2018
Unlike all previous years, during the first ten days of the cotton picking period, forced...
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CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR 2017, Issue 3, September 2017
The cotton harvest season in Uzbekistan has begun once again, as has the forced mobilization to...
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CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR 2017, Issue 2, June 2017
Download the CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR 2017, Issue 2 here.
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CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOUR 2017, Issue 1, February 2017
Download the CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR 2017, Issue 1 here.
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Details surrounding the case of Jamshid Karimov have been made available by a friend and his daughter
November 22, 2016 Annex After spending five years in the Samarkand psychiatric hospital, Ulugbek...
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CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOUR 2016, Issue 1, September 16
Download the PDF In Uzbekistan on September 8, began the massive forced mobilization of students...
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