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Uzbekistan Aims to End Forced Labor in Cotton Fields

OK-OLTIN, Uzbekistan—In previous years, local health inspector Abdusamat Kurbanov would have earned high praise and fat kickbacks for forcing hundreds of workers to leave their day jobs and pick cotton in Uzbekistan’s sweltering cotton fields for weeks at a stretch. Read Full Article - The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2018