Court Orders Continued Detention of Blogger Nafosat Ollashukurova in Psychiatric Hospital
On November 28, the Khorezm Regional Civil Court rejected the request of Nafosat Ollashukurova’s...
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Tag: Uzbekistan
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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Forced labor down in spring cotton work, systemic problems remain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2018 Forced labor down in spring cotton work, systemic...
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Cotton Harvest Chronicle 2018, Issue 1, September 2018
In Uzbekistan, preparations for the 2018 cotton harvest have begun. Due to unfavourable climatic...
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If farmers were given freedom, then, even during hard times, the farming industry would be able to actively develop
This is an ordinary story told by one of the farmers from the Khorezm region to the UGF monitor,...
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Police officers forcefully take wheat collected by farmers
In the Syrdarya region of Uzbekistan, police officers forcefully take wheat collected by farmers which exceeds the quota set by the state. The farmer has the right to keep surplus wheat for himself, but in June 2018 the state...
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Internal Investigation Launched against Chief of District Police for Brutally Beating Farmers
Farmers from the Karshi district of the Qashqadaryo region in Uzbekistan who have not met their...
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Uzbek Farmer: “I will definitely be bankrupt this year”
A monitor from Uzbek-German Forum interviewed a farmer from the Khorezm region who described his...
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We pick cotton out of fear: systematic forced labor and the accountability gap in Uzbekistan
The 96-page report, “‘We Pick Cotton Out of Fear’: Systematic Forced Labor and the Accountability...
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Bobomurod is free, but found guilty …
On May 7 the Tashkent City Criminal Court released journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev, blogger...
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Forced Labor in Uzbekistan—Time to Turn Rhetoric Into Practice
For Immediate Release The government continued forced labor system in 2017 cotton harvest, no...
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Teachers: Cotton is the most painful issue for us
https://www.uzbekforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/teacher.mp4 On April 21, the issue of forced...
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