The Government of Uzbekistan has initiated a regenerative agriculture programme for cotton with the International Cotton ...

Thousands of teachers, health workers, and other civil servants have been mobilized to pick cotton across Central Asia, despite official pledges to end forced labor.

EADaily, November 13th, 2025. Uzbekistan, which is one of the world's largest cotton producers, will buy cotton from The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cotton grown in Uzbekistan is to be sold at a rate pegged to prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange following a May 6 presidential decree in support of the textile industry. The move toward a ...

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 ...

Authorities in Uzbekistan have set a new pay scale for cotton-pickers with the hope of injecting economic dynamism into rural areas badly affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The Agriculture Ministry ...

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 ...

Despite a slew of steps taken to curb the practice, forced labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields remains widespread, according to a recently released report. The Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights (UGF ...

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 ...