The roadmap is intended to boost the production of sustainable cotton in the Uzbekistan, which is one of the world’s largest cotton producers. Uzbekistan is unique for its cotton clusters—vertically ...

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 ...

Privatization of the cotton sector “is in itself no silver bullet solution” for the problems of corruption and forced labor. Few things are as closely associated with Uzbekistan as cotton, but hanging ...

For years, nurse Shokhidakhon Khasanova was signed out of hospital every autumn to spend weeks labouring in Uzbekistan's cotton fields along with over two million others. "One year I was pregnant, but ...

Uzbek Forum’s latest report, “Tashkent’s Reforms Haven Not Yet Reached Us” – Unfinished Work in the Fight Against Forced Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2019 Cotton Harvest, documents both the progress in ...

Uzbeks harvesting 'white gold' (AFP) In an open letter on January 17, some 100 Uzbek dissidents and activists abroad and 40 in the country say the forced use of child labor in the Uzbek cotton ...

Plans appear to be making progress for a new agreement that would re-open Uzbekistan’s cotton sector to the international market while protecting labour rights. A boycott against Uzbekistan cotton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sodikov Abduvali, Deputy Chairman of the Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom) [left] and Iveta Ouvry, Senior Director of Programmes at Better Cotton [right]. Credit: Better Cotton.