Resources: Uzbekistan

  1. © ILO 2024
    Uzbek cotton is free from systemic child labour and forced labour

    01 March 2022

    Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO findings.

  2. Uzbekistan: Government and the UN Conclude the First Joint Programme of the Joint SDG Fund

    26 February 2022

    The Government of Uzbekistan in partnership with the UN agencies concluded its first UN Joint Programme sponsored by the Joint SDG Fund. Three sister-agencies - the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) together with the Ministry of Finance reported on the achievements in the social protection system accomplished by the Programme in 2020-2022.

  3. Uzbekistan: Social Protection for All

    25 February 2022

    Only half of the Uzbekistan’s population has access to at least one social protection scheme. The National Strategy for Social Protection sets out to increase the coverage and ensure adequacy of social protection for all. The video tells stories of ordinary people and how social protection is helping in various difficulties throughout lives and advocates for the extension.

  4. Newsletter #4 - December 2021

    30 December 2021

  5. Joint UN-Uzbekistan Achievements in Strengthening the Social Protection System Discussed

    17 December 2021

    TASHKENT, 17 December 2021, – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organized a meeting for national and international development partners to discuss the achievements of the UN Joint Programme on Strengthening Social Protection in Uzbekistan and to foster actions for social protection strengthening in the context of the ongoing reforms and COVID-19 pandemic.

  6. ILO's webinar on promoting transition from informal to formal economy and Global call to action for a human-centered recovery from COVID-19 crisis

    14 December 2021

    The ILO Project "Transition from informal to formal economy" has been officially launched at the Webinar.

  7. ILO supported knowledge exchange on formalisation between BRICS and CIS

    09 December 2021

    From 2 November 2021 to 9 December 2021, tripartite constituents and academic partners from the BRICS and the CIS countries exchanged experiences in transitioning to formality organised by the International Labour Organization (ILO), with the participation of the International Training Centre in Turin (ITC-ILO).

  8. ILO Addressees International Web Forum to Mark Ratification by Uzbekistan of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

    19 November 2021

    Olga Koulaeva, Director of the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, addressed an International Web Forum (in hybrid format) coinciding with the ratification by Uzbekistan of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, World Children’s Day and UNICEF’s 75th anniversary. The forum was organized by “Zamin” International Public Foundation in cooperation with the Government of Uzbekistan.

  9. ILO Moscow all-staff motivational team building event

    17 November 2021

    The online all-staff motivational event took place on 15 and 17 November 2021.

  10. CIS countries shared progress on transition to formality during the inter-regional dialogue with the BRICS

    16 November 2021

    On 16 November 2021, representatives of the tripartite constituents from Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan discussed the progress on transitioning to the formal economy with their BRICS counterparts during the BRICS-CIS knowledge exchange series on formalisation, jointly organized by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Training Center in Turin (ITCILO).