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14 february 2017
ILO: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is not happening because we do not want to believe it
The International Labor Organization (ILO) recently published a report based on a monitoring mission on child and forced labor ...
5 december 2016
Member of Uzbekistan’s National Security Service Orders Burning of Dissident Artists’ Work
On December 2, Shirin Tosheva, the former chief curator of the Urgench City Art Gallery, reported that the National ...
5 december 2016
Member of Uzbekistan’s National Security Service Orders Burning of Dissident Artists’ Work
On December 2, Shirin Tosheva, the former chief curator of the Urgench City Art Gallery, reported that the National ...
30 november 2016
Assets illegitimately acquired by the Uzbek ruling elite should be confiscated and returned to the victims
Press-release   29 November, 2016                                                                                                                   Le Mans, Berlin,  Memphis   Assets acquired by the ruling elite in ...
24 november 2016
Activists and journalists call for the immediate release of journalist Jamshid Karimov from forced psychiatric detention
A group of Uzbek journalists and human rights activists has sent an appeal letter to the German and U.S. ...
16 november 2016
Uzbekistan ranked among the least free in Internet Freedom Report
Uzbekistan has one of the most tightly controlled online and media environments in the world. This was the result ...
16 november 2016
German Journalist deported from Uzbekistan
On November 10th the German journalist Edda Schlager, currently residing in Kazakhstan, was detained in Tashkent and then deported ...
17 october 2016
Cotton 2016 in Uzbekistan: Mother Loses Baby while Doctors Harvest Cotton
On September 28, a 21-year-old woman in labor who was brought to the maternity hospital in the Guzar district ...
28 september 2016
Statements of “voluntary participation” in the cotton harvest are an additional mockery of the people
This year’s forced mobilization of people to the cotton fields which started two weeks ago and has been carried ...
14 september 2016
British Media Coverage of Islam Karimov’s Death
Karimov’s terrible misrule On August 31st The Times published the article “Nightmare in Tashkent”, in which it informs its ...
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1 april 2016
Selfie with Borat
According to preliminary results of the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, the political party “Nur Otan”, led by head of ...
30 april 2015
Protecting Human Rights: Elena Urlaeva and Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan
Protecting Human Rights: Elena Urlaeva and Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan
23 may 2016
The Cover-Up: Whitewashing Uzbekistan’s White Gold
See the full report here: http://harvestreport2015.uzbekgermanforum.org/ The evidence from the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan indicates that the government ...
16 october 2015
Divers on the cotton fields?