Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. © Peretz Partensky 2022
    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.

  2. © ILO 2022
    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 findings.

  3. An end to child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton harvest

    Uzbekistan is the sixth largest producer of cotton in the world. Two million people pick the cotton every harvest. The ILO is working with the government, workers, employers and civic society to bring about an end to child labour and forced labour during the harvest.

  4. © ILO 2022
    Forced and child labour in Uzbek cotton fields continues to fall

    Systematic and systemic child and forced labour were not used by the Uzbekistan government during the 2019 cotton production cycle, according to a new ILO report.

  5. Third party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the 2019 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

  6. Uzbekistan ratifies the two Governance Conventions on Labour Inspection

    Uzbekistan has ratified the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (No. 81) and the Labour Inspection (Agriculture) Convention, 1969 (No. 129)

  7. © AFP 2022
    Uzbekistan looks to soften image of notorious cotton sector

  8. © Paula Dupraz-Dobias 2022
    Forced labour: Can Swiss assistance help clean up Uzbek cotton?

  9. Third party monitoring of child labour and forced labour during the 2018 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan

  10. Major progress on forced labour and child labour in Uzbekistan cotton fields

    International Labour Organization monitors say that forced labour during the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has been significantly reduced. As in previous years child labour is no longer a concern.