Tag Archive for: Mobilization

School Pupils from Bukhara Forced To Pick Cotton

Pupils from several schools in the Vobkent district of the Bukhara…
Artist: Elsevar (Source: www.eltuz.com)

Cotton Harvest in Uzbekistan Through the Eyes of Cartoonists

Mother Loses Baby while Doctors Harvest Cotton

„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…

“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…
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…