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LONDON (TCA) — In Uzbekistan, the economy is currently growing thanks to the state’s continuing clout, the country may be at “crossroads” but that is where it can be expected to remain for some time to come. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — This year Uzbekistan plans to produce 800 thousand tons of cotton fiber and send 550 thousand tons for export, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported citing official sources. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — A new report on global slavery ranks Uzbekistan among the five worst offenders in terms of the number of people forced into modern slavery, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — On May 25, a first batch of Kyrgyz cotton arrived in the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh, said the Honorary Consulate of Bangladesh in Kyrgyzstan. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Foreign investments will not be attracted into charter capitals of 93 cotton-processing factories in Uzbekistan, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek civil society activists on behalf of more than 140,000 people from around the world on March 9 in Washington, DC presented a petition to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, calling on the Bank to suspend lending to the agriculture sector in Uzbekistan until the Uzbek government changes its policy of forced labor in the cotton industry, said the Cotton Campaign, a global coalition of labor, human rights, investor and business organizations coalesced to end forced labor of children and adults in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan. Continue reading
