Resources on Agriculture, plantations, and other rural sectors

  1. © 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.

  2. © 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.

  3. 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)

  4. 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.

  5. © Carsten ten Brink 2022
    ILO reports important progress on child labour and forced labour in Uzbek cotton fields

    Monitoring team finds strong political will from central government to end fundamental labour rights’ violations during the 2017 cotton harvest: Child labour is no longer an issue, while forced labour is being systematically addressed.

  6. © Peretz Partensky 2022
    Uzbekistan ends systematic use of child labour and takes measures to end forced labour

    An ILO team monitoring the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has found that child labour is no longer systematically used and that measures are being taken to end the use of forced labour. These conclusions were discussed at a roundtable in Tashkent.