Harvest Report 2015
Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights e.V.
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The cover-Up

Whitewashing Uzbekistan's White Gold

The evidence from the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan indicates that the government has not undertaken reforms to end its systematic use of forced labor. Yet the 2015 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan differed from previous years in a significant way: While the government continued to force more than a million people to pick cotton and farmers to grow cotton under threat of penalty, it did so while making significant efforts to project the appearance of cooperation with the International Labour Organization (ILO) ...
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Local / City /
District Administrations
2014.08.28_Resolution-of-Tashkent-Khokim.pdf2015.09.29_Transcript-of-a-Recording-of-a-cotton-headquarters-meeting.pdf2015.09_Uchtepa-Khokim-Urgent-Message.pdfMayors Appeal.pdf
Mahalla
2015.09.10_Letter-from-Mahalla-Hojakent.pdf
Members of
Parliament
2015_Letter-from-Member-of-Parliament.pdf
Ministry of Higher
and Secondary
Specialized Education
2015.09.10_GORONO-Angren-Schedule.pdf
President
2014.09.04_Resolution-of-the-President.pdf
Private Companies
2015.09.07_Uzmetkombinat-Bekabad-Oder.pdf2015.09.10_Angren-Coalmine.pdf2015.09.10_Angren Issiqlik-Energiyasi-Order.pdf
General Prosecutor's
Office
2011.08.08_Prokuratura-Jizzak.pdf
quasi
Non-Governmental
Organisations
2015_Syrdarya-Kamolot-Appeal.pdf
Schools
2015.05.15_letter-of-school-director-Angren_Kabulova-death.pdf2015.10.14_Puples-Diary.pdfList of School Teachers.pdf
Universities
Colleges
Academic Lyceums
2012_Promise-Letter-Tashkent-Pedagogical-Insitute.pdf2015.09.06_Promise-Letter_Tashkent-University-of-Informational-Technologies.pdf2015.09.07_Promise-Letter_Institute-Irrigation-Sirdaryo.pdf2015_Receipt-Samarkand-Architecture-Institute.pdfLetter of Acknowledgement_College Samarkand.pdfPromise Letter_Bukhara State Medical Institute_eng and original.pdfOrder of dismissal of a student from the college_September 2011.pdf
Introduction & Overview
Methodology
Forced Labor System of Cotton Production in 2015 Forced Labor System of Cotton Production in 2015 Forced Mobilization of Labor in 2015 Forced Mobilization of Labor in 2015 Climate of Fear Climate of Fear Corruption & Economic Opportunity Corruption & Economic Opportunity Persecution of Independent Monitors Persecution of Independent Monitors ILO and World Bank Engagement in Uzbekistan ILO and World Bank Engagement in Uzbekistan
Documentary Evidence
Recommendations
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