International Labor Organization. "Third Party Monitoring of the use of child labour and forced labour during the Uzbekistan 2015 Cotton Harvest". 2015.

International Labor Organization. "Third Party Monitoring of the use of child labour and forced labour during the Uzbekistan 2015 Cotton Harvest". 2015.

• The government has remained true to its commitment in 2013 to distribute information against child labour, as displayed by the variety of posters, PSAs, and mandatory information session used by the government in urban and rural areas (2).
• "The organized recruitment of adults to pick cotton is widespread. Recruitment takes different forms, depending how the authorities decide to use the human resources at their disposal to meet their cotton quota. Large numbers of citizens seem to be willing recruits and see the harvest as an opportunity" (2).
• The government has recently untaken policy commitments to stop recruiting medical staff and teachers for work in cotton production, but implementation has been difficult due to set patterns of coercing state employees into labor. Despite this, health facilities and schools appear to be functionally normally (2).
• University students in particular have shown a propensity to volunteer for cotton work, seeing it as a representation of national duty and patriotism (3).
• "The use of children in the cotton harvest has become rare and sporadic. Authorities have taken a range of measures to reduce the incidence of child labour and make it socially unacceptable. Awareness on the unacceptability of using under 18-year-old children and youth for the cotton harvest is high" (2).
• Concerns have been raised that adults are being coerced into cotton harvesting, but these complaints have enough politicization and inconsistency to be deserve further inquiry (3).
• "Commitments by the Government and social partners of Uzbekistan against child and forced labour have been stepped up and need to be acknowledged. Implementation of those commitments on forced labour will have to be profound and extensive if behaviours and attitudes of the various authorities responsible for meeting cotton quotas are to change fundamentally. Further safeguards against their abuse should be put in place. The response of Uzbekistan at the Roundtable in Tashkent on 10 November 2015, confirmed by resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on 16 November, expressing the intention to take effective measures in this regard within the framework of ILO and World Bank cooperation, is most encouraging and welcome" (3).
• A summary of the government of Uzbekistan's commitments against child labour in general, and in regards to the ILO in particular, are available on pages 4 and 5.
• The mechanisms and procedures of the ILO monitoring mission are provided in the remainder of the document (6-62).