Uzbekistan Hails Cotton Fair While Industry Blasted for “Slavery”
Uzbekistan stands to earn $1 billion annually exporting cotton, an industry that has planted the Central Asian country prominently on the inaugural Global Slavery Index published by an Australian...
View ArticleDeadly Year for Forced Laborers in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields
Uzbekistan again mobilized over a million forced laborers, including schoolchildren, to harvest its billion-dollar cotton crop this autumn, according to a detailed November 27 report from the Cotton...
View ArticleForced Labor Still Systematic in Turkmenistan – Report
With the arrival of November, the serfs trickle home from Turkmenistan’s cotton fields. But a culture of state employees being forced to labor in menial jobs continues throughout the year, says an...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Forced to Labor in Cotton Fields, Students Rebel
Uzbekistan’s practice of sending forced laborers to pick the cotton harvest causes a furor abroad every year. But now there are rumblings of discontent from within the country. National University...
View ArticleUzbekistan: Forced Labor Gathers Cotton Crop
Roughly one out of every five adults in Uzbekistan was coerced into picking cotton during the just-completed harvest season, according to a November 14 statement distributed by the Cotton Campaign, an...
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