
1,100 Cotton Pickers Arrived in Dustlik District
On September 27, 2017, activist Malokhat Eshonkulova visited…

Teachers in Fergana to be Sent to Karakalpakstan to Pick Cotton
“A campaign to send 40,000 volunteers from the Fergana Valley…

Uzbek Official Insulted at Cotton Meeting Dies from Cerebral Haemorrhage after Suffering Humiliation
A 57-year-old khokim of the Ulugnor district of the Andijan region…

Teachers in Andijan Ordered to Hire Workers to Pick Cotton
September 20, 2017
A report received by the editorial…

Police Officers Release German “Stern” Journalist Detained near Tashkent (updated)
Elena Urlayeva, head of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan…

The hokim of Andizhan reneged on his promise and “state employees” were again sent to collect cotton
The hokim of the Andijan region, Shukhratbek Abdurakhmanov, who…

Some Workers Excused from Cotton Fields
Political Will Needed to End Forced Labor
(Washington, DC,…

Uzbekistan: Central Bank Orders Bank Employees to Recruit Workers to Collect Cotton
September 28 2017, Fergana region
On September 26, 2017, the…

Uzbekistan: Cotton Slave Labor Out, Human Rights Ombudsman In?
Article retrieved from Eurasianet.
Just as the annual cotton-picking…

An elderly man decided to pick cotton instead of his wife and died right in the field
The 58-year-old Andizhan resident Muzaffar Umrzakov, who went…