Tag: Uzbek cotton

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Committee ahead of its national review…

Uzbekistan has been called on to carry out the United Nations Committee Against Torture’s recommendations to end the “widespread, routine…

A legal challenge over cotton imports from Uzbekistan could stop slave-made goods entering the European Union. The legal action says…

Despite a promise of reform, forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields remains widespread, according to the Uzbek-German Forum for Human…

Reforms continue in Uzbekistan as President Shavkat Mirziyoyev tries to reduce the former Soviet state’s isolation through a diplomatic charm…

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev first term in office is under scrutiny this week at the United Nations Human Rights Council…

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are rebuilding bilateral ties after decades of hostility in a process that could revitalise economic between the…

Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev is expected to visit Tajikistan, the only Central Asian neighbour he has not visited in his…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that Uzbekistan has recalled some students from forced labour in its notorious cotton fields, but…

Uzbekistan has freed a prominent dissident from jail while an opposition news source said one of its contributors had been…

The World Bank has been accused of ignoring child and forced labour in Uzbekistan with a report saying schools have…

Uzbekistan’s struggling economy is dependent on cotton. Source: Eurasia Times     The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has confirmed the scope…

President Islam Karimov with fellow strongman Vladimir Putin. Source: Kremlin Muhammad Bekjanov, one of the world’s longest-imprisoned journalists, has been…