Cotton Slavery in Uzbekistan: The Last Victims?

28.09.2017 17:32 msk Analytics Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

This cotton season in Uzbekistan barely started has already claimed lives of four people. The sad statistics of the newest Uzbek "cotton-growing" replenishes year by year.

Human Rights Defenders: World Bank should press Uzbekistan for abandoning cotton slavery

29.06.2017 15:18 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan

If you google “modern cotton slavery” phrase you would immediately understand what a country will be discussed. These words are tightly connected with Uzbekistan . Although, how much tightly?

High and Dry: Central Asia’s Failure to Avert the Impending Water Crisis

18.01.2017 10:09 msk Analytics Business Central Asia Cotton Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Politics Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

The Harvard International Review 's January 2017 edition includes an academic article on problems with water supply in Central Asia. The article author Alisher Ilkhamov is Alisher Ilkhamov is a Research Associate at the Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus at the School of Oriental and

Uzbekistan: Everyone, yes, everyone is picking cotton. But two women taking photos

19.10.2016 10:42 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan is planning to decrease the amount of manual labour in agriculture, in cotton cultivation in particular, by 30 per cent. The issue was discussed in print materials distributed during the 12th International Cotton and Textile Fair recently held in Tashkent. Interestingly, three fairs ago i

Uzbek expert criticizes World Bank over monitoring of forced labour

09.12.2015 19:06 msk Analytics Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

In late November, the International Labour Organization (ILO) in collaboration with the World Bank published the monitoring results of the use of child and forced labour during the cotton harvest in 2015 in Uzbekistan . The experts of the ILO, as the report says, «could not find conclusive evidence

Uzbekistan: Cotton slaves picked sells well, as usual…

22.10.2015 13:31 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan

According to many employees of state-funded institutions, who have been forcefully sent to cotton fields in Uzbekistan , they manually collected the entire harvest of cotton this year. They report seeing not even one cotton-picking machine throughout the whole period of their work on the fields. Mea

Uzbekistan: “We are slaves, indeed!” A photojournalist’s cotton-picking stint (+photos, video)

23.09.2015 13:39 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

Text and photos are copyrighted by Timur Karpov

The Uzbek Cotton: The Government’s Riches, the People’s Curse

15.04.2015 11:17 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Politics Uzbekistan

Images of cotton fields and workers are provided by the author

More children die on cotton fields in Uzbekistan

22.09.2013 00:16 msk Business Cotton Human Rights Uzbekistan

On 15 Sep 2013, a 6-year-old child suffocated to death under a heap of raw cotton in Bukhara Region in western Uzbekistan . The boy did not go to school on that day, but went to a cotton field to help his mother. He climbed into a trailer and fell asleep. Those collecting cotton did not notice him a

Doctors in Uzbekistan on cotton fields: “Impossible to refuse”

03.07.2013 00:01 msk Analytics Business Cotton Uzbekistan

The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights compiled and distributed a new video clip on the forced labor of doctors and other medicine-related professionals to weeding cotton fields in Uzbekistan .

Uzbekistan 2012 Cotton Harvest: Continued State-Sponsored Forced Labor of Children and Adults

24.12.2012 10:51 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

The 2012 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has concluded, and the system of forced labor of cotton production remained the same as in previous years. December 20, 2012, the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights and the Cotton Campaign released the Review of the 2012 Cotton Harvest, which explains that impl

Uzbekistan: Parents sent to the cotton fields instead of their children

11.09.2012 22:58 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

The author of the poster is an artist from Uzbekistan (“Ustos”). It have been provided to Fergana by Sergey Ignatyev, “Creativity and Human Rights” project coordinator

Fabric of Abuse: Fashion world snubs fruits of Uzbek child labor

05.10.2011 22:59 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: News from the Fields

20.10.2009 16:41 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Photo © Ferghana.Ru, October of 2009. The Nukus area

Uzbekistan: The students in the Tashkent Oblast do not go to secondary schools (photo)

05.10.2009 14:49 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Photo by © Ferghana.Ru. October 3, 2009. Yangiyul, the Tashkent Oblast. The photos are available at Gallery.Ferghana.Ru

Uzbek field chronicle-2009: the Syr Darya children

30.09.2009 15:05 msk Cotton Uzbekistan

Few days ago the secondary school children in the Syr Darya Oblast of Uzbekistan flooded the cotton fields just as their counterparts in other regions. Unlike in the previous years, this year the local authorities officially instructed to attract only 14 plus kids, 7th graders, for cropping of "whit