Mobilization of students to the fields in 2015 © UGF

Samarkand Students Return From Picking Cotton

Students studying at the universities of Samarkand returned from…

Samarkand Students Picking Cotton for 60 Days

Students from universities in the Samarkand region have been…

Uzbekistan: “Fearless” Human Rights Activists Continue to Monitor Cotton Harvest

  On October 22, 2016, the journalist and human rights…

Doctors, Teachers and High School Pupils Picking Cotton in Pastdargom District

On October 12, 2016 the activists Malokhat Eshonkulova and Elena…

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

A student from Samarkand complained to Radio Ozodlik about problems…
Cotton pickers in the Namangan region © UGF 2016

Statements of “voluntary participation” in the cotton harvest are an additional mockery of the people

This year’s forced mobilization of people to the cotton fields…

Management staff demands up to 150 $ for exempting people from the harvest

With the beginning of the seasonal cotton harvest in Uzbekistan,…

Kindergarten teacher fired for non-participation in the cotton harvest

In the Kattakurgan District of the Samarkand region, a kindergarten…
Letter of voluntary participation © UGF

A Letter of “voluntary” participation in the cotton harvest

To the Dean and Associate Professor of the                                                                                                                           …

“Must pick cotton in any case”

The head of the State Institute of Foreign Languages in Samarkand…