ASHGABAT – The Cotton Campaign coalition says that independent monitoring has revealed some progress in reducing the use of forced labour in Turkmenistan’s cotton harvest but warns that it is still widespread.
Public authorities stopped mobilising teachers and doctors – or extorting them to pay for replacement pickers – in the 2023 harvest but they reportedly continued to subject all other groups of state employees to forced labour.
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