First-Year College Students Forcibly Mobilized to Harvest Cotton

First-year college students in the Ferghana region are being…

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

A student from Samarkand complained to Radio Ozodlik about problems…

“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…

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…

“If you don’t pick cotton, you will be expelled from the university”

A disabled student from Tashkent is being forced to pick cotton.…
Mobilization of students in Jizzakh 2016. © UGF

Students of the Graphic Arts Department at the Ferghana State University mobilized to harvest cotton

Students of the Graphic Arts Department at the Ferghana State…
Letter of voluntary participation © UGF

A Letter of “voluntary” participation in the cotton harvest

To the Dean and Associate Professor of the                                                                                                                           …
Mobilization of students to the fields in 2015 © UGF

Students and teachers of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute mobilized for cotton picking

Students and teachers of the Jizzakh State Pedagogical Institute…

Message from a student of the Jizzakh Pedagogical University

"I have not gone to pick cotton last year, neither did I pay…
Mobilisation of cotton pickers to the fields 2015 (Source: UGF monitors)

Students of the University of Karshi have been forcibly sent to pick cotton

On September 7, students from the Karshi City Pedagogical University…