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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uzbekistan will reimburse farms and producers for the costs of obtaining certification under the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) standards.

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 ...

It is cotton-harvesting time and in fields in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan that means tens of thousands of people are out picking cotton -- whether they like it or not. The difference between ...

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 ...

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 ...

TASHKENT, 7 February (BelTA) - Belarus and Uzbekistan are busy setting up a facility to assemble cotton tractors, Director General of the Belarusian tractor manufacturer MTZ Vitaly Vovk told the media ...

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Uzbek farmers work at a cotton field in the village of Chinaz, some 80 km (50 miles) west of capital Tashkent May 20, 2005. REUTERS/Maria Golovnina CVI/TC TASHKENT, April 16 (Reuters) - ...

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, an ...

OK-OLTIN, Uzbekistan—In previous years, local health inspector Abdusamat Kurbanov would have earned high praise and fat kickbacks for forcing hundreds of workers to leave their day jobs and pick ...