...Those we represent and the broader communities in which they reside have suffered harm as a result of the World Bank’s failures and omissions in the International Development Association-funded Rural Enterprise Support Project-Phase II (RESP-II) located in Uzbekistan. The harm suffered is due to the project’s investment in an agriculture sector underpinned by government orchestrated, forced labor, without adequate measures in place to prevent World Bank funds from contributing to such forced labor. This problem of forced labor went completely unacknowledged in the Social Assessment carried out prior to the project and no serious consideration of the potential for the project to contribute to this problem was done...While receiving RESP II funds, the Government has forced children and adults, including claimants, to work in the cotton sector...Despite our repeated requests to the Bank to ensure that its loans are not supporting government orchestrated forced labor, the Bank has failed to carry out an assessment of sufficient quality to...determine what steps are necessary to prevent the project from contributing to forced labor...Bank management staff has listed “[e]xternal NGOs may continue raising child labor issue with the Bank” as a risk associated with the project...We request the Inspection Panel recommend to the World Bank’s Executive Directors that an investigation of these matters be carried out.