Findings of the UGF Monitoring 2016

FORCED LABOR IN THE UZBEK COTTON PRODUCTION

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NEWS

Interactive Map of Uzbekistan

REGIONS OF COTTON PRODUCTION

The Issue at Stake

Uzbekistan’s Forced Labor System of Cotton Production

Every year, the Uzbek government forcibly mobilizes over a million citizens to grow and harvest cotton. Farmers are forced to grow cotton and deliver production quotas under threats of penalty, including the loss of the lease to farm the land, criminal charges and fines. Over a million citizens are forced to pick cotton and deliver harvest quotas under threat of penalty, including expulsion from school, job loss, and loss of social security benefits…

FORCED LABOR IN THE UZBEK COTTON PRODUCTION

REGIONS OF COTTON PRODUCTION

Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan

Navoiy Region

Kashkadarya Region

Khorezm Region

Bukhara Region

Surkhandarya Region

Samarkand Region

Namangan Region

Jizzakh Region

Syrdarya Region

Tashkent Region

Andijan Region

Fergana Region

Uzbekistan’s Forced Labor System of Cotton Production

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News

Farmers Verbally Abused by Head of Andijan District

ILO: Forced labor in Uzbekistan is not happening because we do not want to believe it

Official from the Uzbek Cabinet of Ministers blames human rights activist for the country failing to fulfill its yearly cotton quota

D.R. Makhmudov’s official reply to Elena Urlaeva’s complaint

Samarkand Students Return From Picking Cotton

Samarkand Students Picking Cotton for 60 Days

“Bring 5 kg of cotton to school”

Human rights activist Elena Urlaeva arrested in Buka city

College Students Still Looking for Cotton

School Pupils from Bukhara Forced To Pick Cotton

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

Teacher Beaten by Khokim in Kashkadarya for Awareness-Raising Activities

Official Press on Uzbek Cotton Traders

Cotton Harvest in Uzbekistan Through the Eyes of Cartoonists

Head of the Karshi district accused of beating farmers and managers failing to comply with cotton duties

Senior Pupils from Mirzachul District Mobilized to Pick Cotton

School Pupils from Qashqadaryo Region Forced to Pick Cotton

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

BriefPaxta: “It Gets Worse and Worse”

BriefPaxta: “Pick Cotton Before Having Your Dog Put Down”

BriefPaxta: “We Cannot Get Dental Care while Dentists are Picking Cotton”

“We Were Subjected to a Full Investigation”

Uzbekistan export of textiles amounted to $ 1.1 billion in 2016

Employee from Jizzakh Beaten by Police for Refusing to Pick Cotton

Elena Urlaeva Speaks About Detention and Assaults In Police Station

In Andijan drivers are forced to pick cotton and give cotton pickers a ride for free

BriefPaxta: Good Grades for Cotton Pickers

More Students Mobilized to Pick Cotton due to Slowdown of Cotton Harvest

“You have to teach 8 different subjects while other teachers were away picking cotton”

Andijan: Almost Everyone Mobilized to Pick Cotton

Participant of Cotton Planning Meeting Killed

Mother Loses Baby while Doctors Harvest Cotton

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

First-Year College Students Forcibly Mobilized to Harvest Cotton

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

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

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

„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“.

Uzbekistan’s Imams Declare Picking Cotton is Mandatory in Islam

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

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

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

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

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

Health Professionals from Angren Forced to Harvest Cotton in Buka district

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

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

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

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

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

The Head of Kyzyryk District Forced People to Pick Cotton until Morning

Entrepreneurs from Asaka are forced to pay a “cotton tax”

“Why should I leave my kid and pick cotton?”

Uzbeks migrants returning back home to change their passports fall into the “cotton trap”

Alimony payers are punished with cotton harvest mobilization

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

Teachers and Employees of Educational Institutions in the city of Gulistan in the Syrdarya Region Mobilised to Harvest Cotton on a Daily Basis

Woman suffered a miscarriage during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

Forced Deployment of Bus Drivers to the Cotton Fields Overloading Bus Capacity in Tashkent

New President, Old Habits

Teachers and doctors in Buka are harvesting cotton

Parents who refuse to pay for cotton harvest must pick cotton on their own

CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR, Issue 1, 2016
CHRONICLE OF FORCED LABOR, Issue 2, 2016