On September 18, 2018, the press service of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Uzbekistan reported on a seminar held on September 17-18, 2018 in Tashkent on the project of the International Labor Organization “Third Party Monitoring”. In this report, in particular, it was noted that: “The ILO will conduct Third Party Monitoring during the cotton harvest in 2018.
This process involves a comprehensive analysis of measures on labor issues and the eradication of the risks of child and forced labor in picking cotton and, in agriculture, in general.
The project implements several studies, the source of information of which will be field interviews, for which eight international experts have been invited.
The new report of the International Labor Organization to the World Bank states that the systematic use of child labor in the cotton-growing sector of Uzbekistan has come to an end, and the Government is taking concrete measures to end the use of forced labor.
In this context, it is necessary to emphasize that in order to eradicate the risks of forced labor, the President of Uzbekistan, Mr. Shavkat Miromonovich, threatened officials with harsh measures for forcing social workers and students to field and landscaping work, equating it with treason.
http://chamber.uz/ru/news/3182
From this message we can draw the following conclusions:
1. The ILO will conduct surface monitoring only during the cotton harvest period – in the fall.
2. The President of Uzbekistan advocates only social workers and students. And the other segments of the population means allowed to force to work?
In my opinion, this is a very limited and even simply decorative approach to the problem of the use of forced labor in Uzbekistan.
For some reason, the ILO refuses to admit that the communist practice of brutal coercion by the government of millions of rural residents to work on state-owned cotton and wheat plantations is still continuing in Uzbekistan.
Akhtam Shaymardan Bulgar
California.
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