Uploaded April 2012 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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ECCHR High Level Hearing
From the Uzbek Cotton Fields to the Termez Military Base
Film Part 7 of 7

In this public high-level hearing, experts from governmental,
intergovernmental, business, and NGO backgrounds will
discuss the relationship between Germany and Uzbekistan.

From state-sponsored child labor during the cotton harvesting
involving from 1.5 to 2 million Uzbek children each year, to the
subversion of basic civil and political rights including the
systematic use of torture, the Uzbekistan human rights record
is so appalling that the country is considered one of today's most
repressive regimes left in the world.

Experts will engage on how political and economical interests of
Western Actors impact, positively or negatively, the advancement
of human rights in Uzbekistan.

This event was co-sponsored by the German-Uzbek Forum for Human
Rights, Anti-Slavery International, Human Rights Watch, Uzbekistan
Press Freedom Group, terres des hommes, Eurasian Transition Group,
INKOTA-netzwerk and the Clean Clothes Campaign.

The documentary films are a project of the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and were produced by
ecofilm sustainable film production.