When Development Finance Does More Harm than Good: The Case of Indorama Agro in Uzbekistan
In January 2025, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans and walked away from its contractual...
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Harassment of Human Rights Activist Uktam Pardayev by Jizzakh Officials Continues
Jizzakh human rights activist Uktam Pardaev is seriously concerned for his own safety and the...
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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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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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Article in German Magazine STERN : “Exploited”
Bettina Sengling, a German journalist, has been following Uzbekistan’s most prominent human rights...
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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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A Peek Behind the World Bank’s Mask
by Jessica Evans, Senior Researcher/Advocate at Human Rights Watch for International Financial...
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Head of District Educational Department: “Teachers, not the farmers need the cotton”
On 21 July 2017, the Uzbek website www.sof.uz posted the audio recording of a meeting of school...
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World Bank and ILO Whitewash One of the World’s Most Brutal Regimes
The ILO’s fieldwork was undertaken hand-in-glove with Uzbek state minders, undermining its...
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What every Uzbek knows about forced labour
The Financial Times has published a Letter to the Editor by Elaine Fultz, former Director of the...
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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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