Cotton picker in Karakalpakstan © UGF 2016

Participant of Cotton Planning Meeting Killed

According to a source of Eltuz.com from the district department…

Mother Loses Baby while Doctors Harvest Cotton

Medical Workers Mobilised for Harvest Complain for Poor Conditions in Cotton Fields

400 employees of the Kashkadarya branch of the Republican Scientific…

First-Year College Students Forcibly Mobilized to Harvest Cotton

First-year college students in the Ferghana region are being…
Doctor from the Central Hospital in Dustabad on the cotton field © UGF 2016

Head Doctor of Chinaz’s (Tashkent region) Polyclinic Fired for Failing to Mobilize Sufficient Number of Employees for Cotton Harvest

According to witnesses, the Khokim (local governor) of Chinaz…

“We are Forced to Pick Cotton and Pay for Renovating a Hospital”

"The deputy director of the Central Hospital in the city…

“We are Forced to Pick Cotton in Bushes full of Thorns”

Some people mobilized to pick cotton in the Chinaz district of…

„I did not know that it is possible to call somewhere and complain that I have been sent to harvest cotton. Although I could, I still did not call“.

I teach in the Kokand City College of Computer Technologies.…
Artist: Adolat (Source: www.eltuz.com)

Uzbekistan’s Imams Declare Picking Cotton is Mandatory in Islam

In Uzbekistan the imams of mosques are calling on worshipers…
Cotton picker in Karakalpakstan © UGF 2016

“Statement of the Ministry of Labour of Uzbekistan is simply eyewash”

The Uzbek Ministry of Labour made an official statement about…