“Second-year students assault us to forcibly make us pick cotton”

A student from Samarkand complained to Radio Ozodlik about problems…

“I cannot leave my disabled husband at home to pick cotton”

"I work as a nurse. My husband is a disabled man of the second…

“People who do not fulfill the cotton quota are imprisoned in kennels at the local police office”

“The Khokim of the Chinaz district Makhmud Eshonov, the head…

“Mirziyoev is coming! Students are moved from picking cotton to cleaning streets”

According to Radio Ozodlik, college students picking cotton in…

Health Professionals from Angren Forced to Harvest Cotton in Buka district

On September 23, 2016 the activists Malokhat Eshonkulova and…
Cotton pickers in the Namangan region © UGF 2016

The Public Education Departments happen to be the organizers of the forced mobilization of educational workers

Since September 20, educators living in the city of Buka (Tashkent…
Work on the cotton fields 2015 (Source: UGF monitors)

“Most of the summer we spent in the fields rather than at work”

Interview with the Doctor,. 18 September 2016. I am a…

“You work like a slave from morning till night, not enough food, and should sleep and wake up hungry again”

I'm studying at the Andijan Agricultural Institute, the Faculty…
Doctor from the Central Hospital in Dustabad on the cotton field © UGF 2016

Physicians from Quyichirchiq District pick cotton under supervision of the Federation of Labor Unions

On September 25, 2016, the human rights activist Elena Urlaeva…

Students from Ferghana are forced to walk for 2 hours every day to reach a cotton field

Students of the Tashkent Medical Academy's branch in Ferghana…