Year: 2017

Employees of Tashkent Organizations Hire Cotton Pickers at their own Expense tuesday, 10 october 2017 Check the vide here On September 27, 2017, activist Malokhat Eshonkulova visited cotton fields in the Dustlik ...
Uzbekistan’s new leader fails his first test
25 september 2017
One year after the death of Islam Karimov, the continued use of forced labour in ...
An Open Letter to the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce regarding the Situation in Uzbekistan on the Eve of its Meeting with President Mirziyoev
19 september 2017
Le Mans, France Berlin, Germany Ms Carolyn Lamm Chair American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce 601 13th ...
Head of Saykhunobod District Administration Assaults School Directors
13 september 2017
A video of the head of the Saykhunobod District administration physically abusing school directors appeared ...
13 september 2017
“I will voluntarily go to pick cotton”
A distinctive feature of the cotton season in 2017 is the full-scale requirement for written confirmation of “voluntary participation ...
26 august 2017
Petition: Stop Forced Labor in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Industry
Every year, students in Uzbekistan are massively forced to participate in the cotton harvest. This new animated video tells ...
3 august 2017
“Corruptistan” – Of Princesses and Fraudsters
Last Friday, the Uzbekistan prosecutor’s office confirmed that the daughter of the former Uzbek president Islam Karimov has been ...
2 august 2017
A Peek Behind the World Bank’s Mask
by Jessica Evans, Senior Researcher/Advocate at Human Rights Watch for International Financial Institutions Originally published at Huffington Post and ...
28 july 2017
Head of District Educational Department: “Teachers, not the farmers need the cotton”
On 21 July 2017, the Uzbek website www.sof.uz posted the audio recording of a meeting of school directors and ...
19 july 2017
Does Mirziyoyev read news from websites which are blocked in Uzbekistan?
President Mirziyoyev has read out to parliamentarians a news article published on the website eltuz.com which is blocked in ...