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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May 17, 2025 | Human Rights News
In January 2025, Indorama Agro abruptly prepaid its loans and walked away from its contractual...
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Jizzakh human rights activist Uktam Pardaev is seriously concerned for his own safety and the...
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105 workers from cultural institutions in the Jizzakh region are collecting cotton in a...
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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...
Read MoreNov 15, 2017 | Cotton, Forced Labor, Human Rights News, Our Programs, Press (Uzbek Forum in the News)
Bettina Sengling, a German journalist, has been following Uzbekistan’s most prominent human rights...
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Political Will Needed to End Forced Labor (Washington, DC, October 5, 2017) – The Uzbek government...
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by Jessica Evans, Senior Researcher/Advocate at Human Rights Watch for International Financial...
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On 21 July 2017, the Uzbek website www.sof.uz posted the audio recording of a meeting of school...
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The ILO’s fieldwork was undertaken hand-in-glove with Uzbek state minders, undermining its...
Read MoreJul 11, 2017 | Cotton, Forced Labor, Human Rights News, Our Programs, Press (Uzbek Forum in the News)
The Financial Times has published a Letter to the Editor by Elaine Fultz, former Director of the...
Read MoreJun 1, 2017 | Cotton, Forced Labor, Human Rights News, Our Programs
Download the CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR 2017, Issue 2 here.
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