A coming court verdict on the admissibility of independently verified information could have lasting negative implications for labor rights reporting in Uzbekistan. Privatization of the cotton ...

The Cotton Campaign, a coalition of human rights organisations, independent trade unions, brand associations, investors and academics, has called on the Uzbekistan government to strengthen reforms to ...

The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system; problems rooted in continued state efforts to ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

Today, Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, once home to travelling caravans of merchants trading in colourful bazaars, is now the location of a thriving textile hub. Uzbekistan textiles have long been ...

The American Apparel & Footwear Association, alongside various US industry associations, non-governmental organisations, and ...

This appeal follows the release of a report by the Cotton Campaign's frontline partner, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, which highlights financial difficulties faced by farmers in Uzbekistan and the ...

With improvements in productivity, Uzbekistan’s agriculture sector has considerable potential to boost growth and become a critical source of rural employment and an important driver of poverty ...

A man prunes an elm tree in Kazankethen, Uzbekistan. Such drought-tolerant trees still line some of the dry irrigation ditches that once diverted water to enormous cotton farms from the Amu Darya ...