Better Cotton’s foray into Uzbekistan appeared to signal a fresh start for the Central Asian nation’s cotton industry, which major apparel brands and retailers shunned for years over its rampant use ...

Isolated cases of forced labor point to deeper structural contradictions in how cotton production in Uzbekistan is still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Better Cotton has suspended the license of one of its Uzbek partners until it delivers “appropriate remediation” for the human ...

The war in Ukraine has prompted the former Soviet republics to alter their economic and diplomatic ties with Russia, signaling that they are not clients of Moscow. The Central Asian states, in ...

In April, noted Uzbek human rights activist Umida Niyazova and a journalist were harassed by two men as they planned to tour Fergana and speak to farmers. On May 2, the Cotton Campaign urged the Uzbek ...

In a 1997 file photo, an Uzbek boy hauls up a bag of cotton collected on a field 50 km south of the capital Tashkent. REUTERS The 5th largest cotton exporter, Uzbekistan has forced citizens - ...

Global human rights coalition the Cotton Campaign says it has ended its campaign to boycott Uzbek cotton and textiles, citing progress in eliminating forced labor during crop harvesting last year. In ...

Uzbekistan will reimburse farms and producers the cost of obtaining Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) certification following a new strategic agreement with the not-for-profit organisation. Jangoulun ...

Tensions are rising again in Uzbekistan’s eastern Andijon Region, where farmers say they are being coerced into “voluntarily” ...

The cellulose that remains after cotton ginning is a component used in the production of gunpowder. And from 2022 to today, ...