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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Tag: students
PETITION: Stop Forced Labor in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Industry!
Every year, students in Uzbekistan are massively forced to participate in the cotton harvest. This new animated video tells about the background of this practice: Why is this happening in Uzbekistan? How come nobody refuses? In...
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Some Workers Excused from Cotton Fields
Political Will Needed to End Forced Labor (Washington, DC, October 5, 2017) – The Uzbek government...
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ILO: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is not happening because we do not want to believe it
The International Labor Organization (ILO) recently published a report based on a monitoring...
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Interview with a teacher (46) at the Medical College (city disclosed)
In this interviews names of cities and people won’t be disclosed in order to protect the identity...
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University in Uzbekistan Threatens to Expel Students over Cotton Harvest, Claims Cotton Picking is Coursework
The dean of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Land Reclamation threatened to invalidate...
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