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Uzbek cotton farmers are celebrating the lifting of a 13-year-old international boycott of their product following a finding that the cautiously reform-minded government is no longer using organized forced labor to harvest the economically vital crop. The decision will open the door to long-closed markets for one of the world’s biggest cotton producers, including major…

Rights groups praise reforms but call for continued scrutiny and more progress 

New Delhi, May 2: In the midst of a gloomy international economic scenario, a piece of good news has popped up like a sunray on the horizon. Last month the global boycott of Uzbekistan cotton was lifted, a result of years of hard work by both ...

Uzbekistan has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour, according to new findings from ILO.

State-sponsored use of slave labor to pick cotton was once a factor that turned Uzbekistan into a pariah on the internati