Child labor remains, however, a common feature of life in Uzbekistan, even though it is against the law. If the government keeps any statistics on the scale of this persisting phenomenon, it has not ...

(Berlin) – Uzbek authorities have increased the use of forced labor by adults and older children in the cotton sector during the past year, Human Rights Watch said today. The move was apparently ...

Children picking cotton in Uzbekistan is nothing new -- and protests against the illegal use of child labor have been voiced in the past. One of the signatories of the letter, exiled Uzbek ...

“Denying the International Labour Organization access to Uzbekistan during the cotton harvest for several years running and muzzling local activists who try to document forced child labor show ...

Child Labor in Uzbekistan Are German Firms Profiting from Modern Slavery? Every autumn, children in Uzbekistan are forced to work in the cotton harvest, for little pay. German companies are among ...

Child labor has existed since the Soviet era in Uzbekistan, the world's third-largest cotton exporter. But the letter, the second such appeal by Uzbek activists in as many months, says that in ...

Pressure is growing on the government of Uzbekistan to prove that it is ending the use of child labour during the cotton harvest. Uzbekistan is one of the world's leading producers and exporters ...

Are the U.S.'s supply lines to Afghanistan threatened by negative U.S. government reporting on child labor in Uzbekistan? That's the contention of a two-part analysis in Jamestown's Eurasia Daily ...

In Uzbekistan, any breach in the illegal use of child labor, including the collection of cotton, will be severely prosecuted, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection told Trend on Saturday.

A South Korean trading company has become a target of human-rights activists for using cotton that it admits is produced by child labor and forced adult labor in Uzbekistan. While the company says ...

One grant went toward helping end a practice in Uzbekistan that put farmers ... trained agriculture workers in Mexico on labor rights, aiming to end child labor in the tobacco industry.