"Third-party monitoring of measures against child labour and forced labour during the 2016 cotton harvest in Uzbekistan", January 2017

Uzbekistan continues to make policy commitments and develop action plans to reduce the risks of child and forced labour...Uzbekistan has phased-out organized child labour...This year, the methodology used by the ILO looked at how commitments made by Uzbekistan in 2015 and 2016 to reduce the risk of forced labour were being applied and concludes that forced labour remains a risk for some categories of people, including staff of educational and medical facilities, staff of other public budget and private entities, and pupils/students of lyceums, colleges and higher education institutions.