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.

On October 12, Uzbekistan reported through a summary of information from regional officials that just 72 percent of the planned 3.1 million-ton cotton harvest had actually been harvested. Treated ...

Uzbekistan has made important strides in reducing the use of forced labor in its cotton sector but has yet to eliminate it completely, according to new research released this week.. Uzbek Forum ...

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.

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 ...

“During this year’s cotton season, labor legislation and the recommendations of international labor organizations will be strictly observed, and forced and child labor will not be tolerated,” the ...

It’s spring in Uzbekistan and a new wave of cotton plants is rising from the earth. The crop is known as “white gold” in the Central Asian country and this year’s harvest could be ...

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 ...

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