Uzbekistan just had its annual cotton fair. During the October 12-13 event in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan reported that it had signed contracts to sell some 550,000 tons of cotton and ...

In light of recent reports highlighting progress in eliminating child and forced labor from the Uzbek cotton industry, Uzbekistan has pushed for the lifting of the Cotton Campaign’s pledge in which ...

Uzbekistan has pledged more transparency in a cotton industry blighted by a reputation for relying on child labor and press-ganging of unwilling individuals. Yet, authorities are hounding those trying ...

The president of Uzbekistan has signed a decree ordering the abolition of the state-order system for cotton crops, in effect ending a decades-old arrangement that encouraged forced labor. Under the ...

In Uzbekistan, it's called white gold -- cotton, one of the country's most important cash-crop exports. For decades, hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks have been forced to do the annual backbreaking work ...

Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest has, in many ways, come to embody the country’s gravest problems. Forced child and adult labor epitomized an autocratic state and an iron-fisted ruler. Naturally, when ...

During negotiations Lidselmash signed a contract on delivering cotton cultivators to Uzbekistan. The first batch will be ...

Update: Per Aeropostale's PR, they have agreed to sign the "We The Cotton Campaign" that states a firm opposition to the use of forced labor in Uzbekistan. Investing ethically has always been a ...

Uzbekistan is planning to decrease production and public procurement of raw cotton up to 3 million tons by 2020, President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov said at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers ...

Editor’s Note: Klara Skrivankova is Europe Program and Advocacy Co-ordinator at Anti-Slavery International. The opinions expressed are her own. Cotton is ever-present in our lives. It is in the ...

Uzbekistan just had its annual cotton fair. During the October 12-13 event in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan reported that it had signed contracts to sell some 550,000 tons of cotton and ...