Rights group calls for UN action on Uzbekistan
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its national review…
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German heiress apologises for Nazi labour comments
The heiress of a German biscuit empire has apologised over remarks she made that appeared to play down the forced…
MEPs to endorse slave labour: HRW
A Soviet propaganda poster urging peasants to speed up cotton production in Russian and Uzbek. Cotton production in Uzbekistan has long been politically…
Deaths blamed on Uzbek cotton recruitment
Large areas of Uzbek society are disrupted by the cotton harvest. Source: Eurasian Times Radio Free Europe is arguing that…