Findings of the UGF Monitoring 2017
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Capital: Nukus
Population: 1 711 800
Working population: 984 800 (57,53 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 188 000
Capital: Navoiy
Population: 888 400
Working population: 545 500 (61,40 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 110 000
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Capital: Qarshi
Population: 2 831 300
Working Population: 1 618, 100 (57,15 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 420 000
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Capital: Urgench
Population: 1 653 800
Working Population: 922 100
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 258 000
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Capital: Bukhara
Population: 1 729 700
Working population: 1 030 000 (59,55 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 342 000
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Capital: Termiz
Population: 2 260 600
Working Population: 1 284 300 (56,81 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 335 600
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Capital: Samarkand
Population: 3 380 900
Working population: 1 952 800 (57,76 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 228 700
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Capital: Namangan
Population: 2 458 700
Working Population: 1 474 300 (59,96 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: N/A
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Capital: Jizzakh
Population: 1 205 000
Working population: 696 300 (57,78 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 224 000
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Capital: Guliston
Population: 750 600
Working population: 440 800 (58,73 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton produced in 2015: N/A
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Capital: Tashkent
Population: 2 695 700
Working population: 1 588 600 (58,93 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 255 400
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Capital: Andijan
Population: 2 756 400
Working Population: 1 637 200 (59,40 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 293 100
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Capital: Fergana
Population: 3 329 700
Working Population: 1 940 800 (58,29 %)
Tonnes of raw cotton collected in 2015: 280 000
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The Issue at Stake
Every year, the Uzbek government forcibly mobilizes over a million citizens to grow and harvest cotton. Farmers are forced to grow cotton and deliver production quotas under threats of penalty, including the loss of the lease to farm the land, criminal charges and fines. Over a million citizens are forced to pick cotton and deliver harvest quotas under threat of penalty, including expulsion from school, job loss, and loss of social security benefits…
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Germany will always be our home and we remain firmly anchored in Berlin as we continue to build alliances at home and abroad to defend human rights in Uzbekistan. 6/
engage with the UN, the EU and other international institutions to defend and promote the rights of Uzbek civil society. And now the time has come to make sure that our new name, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, reflects the growth and development of our organisation. 5/
Over a decade later, our efforts to promote human rights in Uzbekistan extend beyond Germany. We work with various international partners throughout Europe, North America and the Central Asian region and 4/
At that time, it felt natural to embed the connection between Germany and Uzbekistan in the name of the human rights organisation she founded. 3/
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