Add to ORKGDespite recent reforms, systematic forced labor was still rampant in 2017 in Uzbekistan's cotton sector, new research shows. A report by the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF), a German-based nongovernmental organization, found evidence of a state-sponsored system of forced labor in all regions they monitored during the 2017 harvest. Local officials, under pressure of a quota production system, continued to force people to pick cotton with little accountability. This research is consistent with findings in a 2016 joint report by UGF and Human Rights Watch documenting labor rights violations that underpin Uzbekistan's cotton industry, including in areas with World Bank funded cotton sector projects. The new report confirms that forced...
The issue of child labor cannot be addressed in isolation. It is symptomatic of a broad failure to e...
Uzbekistan is the seventh largest global cotton producer and third largest cotton supplier for world...
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR Scho...
Every year, the government in Uzbekistan forces up to a million of its own citizens to pick cotton w...
A report evaluating the use of forced child labor in the cotton fields in Uzbekistan, and the ways i...
The 96-page report, "'We Pick Cotton Out of Fear': Systematic Forced Labor and the Accountability Ga...
Uzbekistan, with its enormous potential of natural resources like oil, natural gas, water, gold and...
This article explores state-organized forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry, the labour mana...
In 2014, Uzbekistan made efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but was also complicit...
For the last 10 years, the World Bank has justified its position on human rights by citing the Polit...
This report highlights the continued use of forced child labor in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan ...
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR Scho...
In 2013, Uzbekistan made no advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Notw...
The research focuses on conception of forced labour, types of forced labour, legislation about labou...
After 1991 five countries emerged out of the fall of the Soviet Union to create a new region: Centra...
The issue of child labor cannot be addressed in isolation. It is symptomatic of a broad failure to e...
Uzbekistan is the seventh largest global cotton producer and third largest cotton supplier for world...
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR Scho...
Every year, the government in Uzbekistan forces up to a million of its own citizens to pick cotton w...
A report evaluating the use of forced child labor in the cotton fields in Uzbekistan, and the ways i...
The 96-page report, "'We Pick Cotton Out of Fear': Systematic Forced Labor and the Accountability Ga...
Uzbekistan, with its enormous potential of natural resources like oil, natural gas, water, gold and...
This article explores state-organized forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry, the labour mana...
In 2014, Uzbekistan made efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, but was also complicit...
For the last 10 years, the World Bank has justified its position on human rights by citing the Polit...
This report highlights the continued use of forced child labor in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan ...
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR Scho...
In 2013, Uzbekistan made no advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Notw...
The research focuses on conception of forced labour, types of forced labour, legislation about labou...
After 1991 five countries emerged out of the fall of the Soviet Union to create a new region: Centra...
The issue of child labor cannot be addressed in isolation. It is symptomatic of a broad failure to e...
Uzbekistan is the seventh largest global cotton producer and third largest cotton supplier for world...
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR Scho...