Uzbekistan's cotton industry has experienced a resurgence since an international boycott came to an end, witnessing growth and a shift to quality textiles
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01:24 We activists monitor the cotton fields every year,
01:28 and the government acknowledged it as a problem.
01:31 They raised public awareness, and there was also publicity on social media, TV.
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01:44 Every year, with ILO, we carried out a third-party monitoring of the harvest in the fields,
01:50 but also through phone calls and interviews.
01:53 The last one in 2021 reached out 11,000 respondents all across Uzbekistan
02:00 and concluded that the evidence was that forced labor had been eliminated.
02:06 The wages of cotton pickers went up dramatically.
02:11 Investments went up, and currently Uzbekistan has regained status for export.
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