Home
Log-in
High-Level Hearing on Uzbekistan and Germany
Human rights groups in Germany are holding a high-level hearing next month that will draw attention to Germany’s critical role in sustaining Uzbekistan’s regime with trade and a military presence:
“From the Uzbek Cotton Fields to the Termez Military Base”
Date:
Thursday March 1, 2012 from 13:00 – 18:30
Place:
“Landesvertretung der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg”
Jägerstraße 1, 10117
Berlin
Please [...]
Frontline Defenders Condemn Attacks on Monitors of Forced Child Labour
Frontline Defenders, a UK-based human rights organization, has noted in its annual report that the problem of forced child labour continues in Uzbekistan:
In Uzbekistan, HRDs [human rights defenders] denouncing the use of forced child labour in the cotton fields were threatened, questioned and detained.
Among those facing repeated reprisals for her reporting was Elena Urlaeva.
Frontline has [...]
Speaking Cotton — A New Film on Forced Child Labour
A new film about forced child labour in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan was released in December.
Speaking Cotton, a film by Stefanie Trambow and Erik Malchow, portrays the ongoing exploitation of children in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields. In German and Russian, with English subtitles.
Activist Urges Uzbek Officials to Comply with Anti-Forced Labour Law
Dmitry Tikhonov, a human rights defender in the city of Angren, has appealed to Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov to stop breaking the law and end the exploitation of children in the cotton harvest, the independent website uznews.net reported.
“I addressed my demands to Rustam Azimov because he is personally responsible for overseeing the implementation of [...]
Authorities Threaten To Take Foster Child of Human Rights Activist
A human rights leader in Uzbekistan says she is suffering backlash for her work.
Police have come to the home of Elena Urlaeva of the Human Rights Alliance in Tashkent and attempted to remove her 7-year-old foster child, Muhammad, the independent website uznews.net reported.
The aim of the visit was quite simple: he [the policeman] said [...]
Cotton Campaign RSS Feeds
Follow Us On Twitter
About
REPORTS
Download 2010 SOAS Report What Has Changed
The production and export of cotton continues to be a major feature of the economy, politics and everyday lives of the people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. This report analyses the nature and causes of their use of child labour in the cotton sector.