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The cost of cotton: no future
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports that Uzbek college students are regularly being expelled for refusing to pick cotton.
With that kind of a black mark in their past, any expelled student has little chance of ever completing higher education at home, which leaves the most likely option for survival in a country with mass un- and [...]
More retribution
This just in from the Rapid Response Group, a coalition of Uzbek human rights activists. Ganihon Mamakhanov, whose trial starts today, is a Fergana-based activist, arrested at the height of the cotton harvest (October 10) on trumped up charges after local police planted evidence on him. The implications are clear for those brave individuals trying [...]
Retribution
Uzbekistan’s government has never taken too kindly to those who would expose its crimes against its own people. The brave people documenting the forced labor of children in the cotton harvest are no exception. The BBC reports the latest violence against one of them here.
Guest blog: “No matter how many times you say the word ‘halva,’ it doesn’t get any sweeter in your mouth”: Hoja Nasreddin’s commentary on the new (no, really, NEW) Uzbek law against child labor
The hero of Sufi fables and humorous stories, Hoja Nasreddin embodies folk wisdom. He would have appreciated the assiduous attempts by Uzbek bureaucrats to turn black into white, churning out another in a series of laws prohibiting child- and forced labor. To date, Uzbekistan has signed and ratified the UN conventions on forced- and child [...]
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