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Building trade unions capacity in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan to recruit informally employed workers into their ranks

More than 40 trade union representatives from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan convened to develop action strategy with a particular focus on the issue of protecting the rights and recruiting people informally employed in the economy into the ranks of...

Rapid poll results

The role of social protection and employment promotion as viewed by the young people of Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan’s large young population can make a significant contribution to the country’s ambitious development plans. This report presents perception of more than 8,000 young people about social protection and employment promotion programmes which...

Building Trust in Cotton Fields: The ILO’s engagement in Uzbekistan

Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour - Uzbekistan Edition

The Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration Fair Recruitment and Forced Labour – Uzbekistan Edition serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other actors in Uzbekistan who write about labour migration, especially in the context of...

Better Work Feasibility Study launched in Uzbekistan

The Government of Uzbekistan collaborates with ILO’s Better Work Programme to support the policy of diversification and decent work in the garment sector.

2021 Third-party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan Public Work Programme proved effective in responding to COVID-19 job crisis

The Uzbekistan Public Work Programme (PWP) was one of the most effective responses to the job-crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

ILO and Uzbekistan: advancing decent work and human-centered recovery

Uzbekistan’s fast-moving economic and social reforms are instrumental for achieving the Decent Work Agenda through the country's adherence to complying with ILO standards and promoting decent work. This was stated by the participants of the round...

Child labour - Forced labour

ILO welcomes lifting of Cotton Campaign boycott of Uzbekistan

Agricultural and economic reforms have led to the eradication of systemic child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest.

Forced and child labour

Uzbek cotton is free from systemic child labour and forced labour

Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO...

Uzbekistan: Government and the UN Conclude the First Joint Programme of the Joint SDG Fund

The Government of Uzbekistan in partnership with the UN agencies concluded its first UN Joint Programme sponsored by the Joint SDG Fund. Three sister-agencies - the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and...

Our impact, their voices

Uzbekistan: Social Protection for All

Only half of the Uzbekistan’s population has access to at least one social protection scheme. The National Strategy for Social Protection sets out to increase the coverage and ensure adequacy of social protection for all. The video tells stories of...

Decent Work Country Programme

DWCP Uzbekistan (2021-2025)

Joint UN-Uzbekistan Achievements in Strengthening the Social Protection System Discussed

TASHKENT, 17 December 2021, – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a meeting for national and international development partners to...

ILO's webinar on promoting transition from informal to formal economy and Global call to action for a human-centered recovery from COVID-19...

The ILO Project "Transition from informal to formal economy" has been officially launched at the Webinar.

Knowledge exchange on formalisation between BRICS and CIS

From 2 November 2021 to 9 December 2021, tripartite constituents and academic partners from the BRICS and the CIS countries exchanged experiences in transitioning to formality organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO), with the...

ILO Addressees International Web Forum to Mark Ratification by Uzbekistan of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Olga Koulaeva, Director of the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, addressed an International Web Forum (in hybrid format) coinciding with the ratification by Uzbekistan of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, World...

ILO Moscow all-staff motivational team building event

The online all-staff motivational event took place on 15 and 17 November 2021.

CIS countries shared progress on transition to formality during the inter-regional dialogue with the BRICS

On 16 November 2021, representatives of the tripartite constituents from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan discussed the progress on transitioning to the formal economy with their BRICS counterparts during the BRICS-CIS...

Fair recruitment

Reporting on forced labour and fair recruitment: An ILO toolkit for journalists in Uzbekistan

This toolkit was created to help journalists in Uzbekistan to report on forced labour and fair recruitment.