Cotton sustainability initiative Better Cotton has signed a strategic roadmap with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Agriculture and the Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom).

In Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, people are being coerced by government officials to pick cotton, according to Anti-Slavery International. CNN values your feedback 1.

The Daewoo International unit of South Korea's Posco has become a target of human-rights activists for using cotton that it admits is produced by child labor and forced adult labor in Uzbekistan.

Elena Urlaeva, head of the Human Rights Alliance of Uzbekistan, whose group has conducted monitoring in various regions of Uzbekistan during several cotton harvest seasons, told the Institute for ...

Better Cotton, which operates in 22 countries and accounts for 22 percent of global cotton, launched in Uzbekistan in 2022 following assurance from the International Labor Organization ...

Uzbekistan has a long tradition in growing cotton. Today, it is among the world’s top 10 producers, with an annual production of about one million tons. The World Bank-administered Multi-Donor Trust ...

Better Cotton has introduced a comprehensive plan called the Roadmap of Sustainability Developments in collaboration with Uzbekistan stakeholders in a bid to drive further improvements within the ...

The Cotton Campaign, a coalition of human rights organisations, independent trade unions, brand associations, investors and academics, has called on the Uzbekistan government to strengthen reforms ...

But while Uzbekistan has been lauded for moving away from forced labour, the cotton economy’s insidious influence on regular people’s lives, and, especially, on children’s development and ...

Uzbekistan is the world's sixth-largest cotton producer and has seen growth in this industry following reforms and the end of an international boycott of Uzbek cotton.

Cotton sustainability initiative Better Cotton has signed a strategic roadmap with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Agriculture and the Textile and Garment Industry Association (Uztekstilprom).