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Universal Periodic Review: Two years on, despite the public commitments on the international stage, the government has not issued even a single high-level policy statement to move forward on honoring its promises #Turkmenistan It is not clear whether the government has either the political will or the institutional capacity to implement the recommendations it supported.
@OHCHR_CentrAsia @UNGeneva #UPR https://t.co/GyVOUhkAQK
The Reuters journalist is whitewashing autocracy in Turkmenistan by exoticizing Turkmens as "others" doing ok in the high repression environment @Reuters This enables authoritarian regime to continue evading accountability and get an access to global markets. The government's strategy to make "unremarkable", ordinary actions of normal life to account as them "opening to the world". The expectations of the government are abysmally low.
Thousands of Turkmens can't renew their passports. The state created humanitarian crisis does not get attention from the international media because it does not sell travel tickets. The state policy forces expatriates and migrants to return to the country to renew passports, where they face coercion, intimidation, endemic corruption, a high risk of being subjected to arbitrary travel bans and persecution #Turkmenistan
🔊 Turkmenistan sits on the world's fourth-largest gas reserves and remains nearly impossible to visit. Our reporter @felix_light did. Here’s what he learned on this week's On Assignment podcast https://t.co/pJFFVzaLpP
Türkiye serves as the primary processing hub for Turkmen cotton produced with forced labor. Historically, exports to Türkiye account for roughly 80% to 84% of Turkmenistan’s total outward cotton product trade @cottoncampaign https://t.co/J2SGksMOBd
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Cevdet Yılmaz noted "the volume of Turkish investments and construction contracts in Turkmenistan has reached an impressive sum of $56 billion. Turkish companies continue to successfully implement infrastructure projects in Turkmenistan." @_cevdetyilmaz https://t.co/aPGZA7LWV9
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Business associations, textile machinery manufacturers, brands, and other supply chain actors must stop all investments in Turkmenistan’s textile industry to avoid benefitting or profiting from systematic and widespread state-imposed forced labor in Turkmen cotton production #Turkmenistan @cottoncampaign @mimit_gov @usbsindacato @BHRCmedia @cgilnazionale @CislNazionale @UILofficial https://t.co/QiuwXX8v8I
ILO publishes the findings from the ILO’s observance of the 2025 cotton harvest in Turkmenistan, with a particular focus on child labour and forced labour. Most concerningly, the observance documents a clear increase in children’s presence in cotton fields compared to 2024, despite strengthened legal prohibitions. Public employees continued to participate in cotton picking. Available data do not demonstrate a decisive overall change compared to 2024. Refusal to participate in forced cotton picking could entail social, economic or employment-related consequences. These reported perceptions raise questions about the voluntariness of participation for some workers. Reports of having to pay a fee to avoid picking cotton persisted #Turkmenistan @ilo @ILO_EECA @cottoncampaign https://t.co/6EJTRV4ehM
The Cabinet of Ministers in Turkmenistan routinely manipulate agricultural data to inflate the success and conceal domestic food crises. Because basic food supplies are closely tied to a regime's stability, official reports stay silent on weather-related losses to artificially boost numbers #Turkmenistan https://t.co/7He3s9zM4d
European Commission: Wheat production and yield in Turkmenistan decreased by 16% between 2016 and 2024 due to drought #Turkmenistan Turkmenistan’s gross wheat harvest was at 600,000 metric tons. This is a sharp contrast to official claims from the Turkmen government, which stated its farmers produced over 1.4 million metric tons of wheat during the 2025 harvest season. The production has dropped by 33% @USDA https://t.co/gzn1fZ3sk4
Protecting Turkmenistan’s vital forests: No data, no strategy. The ministries have neither administrative nor financial capacity nor modern knowledge (no access to Internet) to engage on forestry #Turkmenistan https://t.co/36EyIEJ80D
The trouble with foreign university diplomas in Turkmenistan https://t.co/5e27UtjMWd
New rules: All state diplomas and other educational documents are now issued specifically in Turkmen and/or English. Is Russian language out? Turkmenistan has updated its rules for issuing diplomas and educational documents https://t.co/FifByKGjJK
EBRD goes along and uses the government's rosy, distorted growth data in its most recent report. "The absence of pension and social-transfer indexation – a departure from previous years – signalled a tighter fiscal stance. Inflationary pressures are likely to intensify amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Although bilateral trade with Iran remains limited, Turkmenistan’s imports are predominantly food products, amplifying price and supply risks from the disruptions. The economy is forecast to grow by 6.3 per cent in both 2026 and 2027" #Turkmenistan @EBRD https://t.co/ba787u1MkB
At the beginning of the year, the head of Ýaş Tebigatçy appeals to the relevant minister, who then instructs subordinate organizations to pay the requested amount at the expense of their employees #Turkmenistan Ýaş Tebigatçy requests the Minister to issue a directive requiring all agency employees and students of medical educational institutions to pay 20 manats each as an annual contribution. The head GONGO sends identical letters to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. Evidently, employees subordinate to these ministries were also coerced to pay the demanded sum @UNDPEurasia @UNDPKAZ @UNGeneva @OHCHR_CentrAsia https://t.co/Q3ViH1wS2l
Turkmen company to provide citizens of the Kingdom of Eswatini with biometric passports #Turkmenistan
Citizens of Turkmenistan cannot renew their expired and expiring biometric passports at foreign consulates. This policy is strongly criticized by international organizations. The inhumane, authoritarian policy creates enormous suffering for hundreds of thousands of Turkmenistan citizens living in Turkey, Russia and other countries.
Speaking in Geneva in 2025, Vepa Hajiyev, Turkmenistan’s permanent representative to the UN, said: “To issue biometric passports to citizens of Turkmenistan, significant technical and financial resources are needed. This will be an additional burden for the state.”
The government-affiliated company “Ayding Gijeler” will produce and send 1.5 million national identity cards and more than 500,000 biometric passports to Eswatini. Modern cryptographic and biometric technologies will be used to produce the documents. “Aydin Gijeler” will be allocated 4 hectares of land within the Kingdom of Eswatini @OHCHR_CentrAsia @UNHumanRights @UNGeneva https://t.co/hq2L58MuPe
Earnings remain close to subsistence thresholds for many cotton pickers in Turkmenistan, indicating that further adjustments would be required to ensure income levels consistent with a minimum living standard. Pickers in 2025 reported working days exceeding nine hours, exposing them to heightened risks of fatigue, heat and cold stress, and cumulative physical strain #Turkmenistan @ilo @ILO_EECA https://t.co/6EJTRV4ehM
ILO publishes the findings from the ILO’s observance of the 2025 cotton harvest in Turkmenistan, with a particular focus on child labour and forced labour. Most concerningly, the observance documents a clear increase in children’s presence in cotton fields compared to 2024, despite strengthened legal prohibitions. Public employees continued to participate in cotton picking. Available data do not demonstrate a decisive overall change compared to 2024. Refusal to participate in forced cotton picking could entail social, economic or employment-related consequences. These reported perceptions raise questions about the voluntariness of participation for some workers. Reports of having to pay a fee to avoid picking cotton persisted #Turkmenistan @ilo @ILO_EECA @cottoncampaign https://t.co/6EJTRV4ehM
A large majority of interviewed farmers reported anticipating negative consequences for failing to meet production targets under the State Order, primarily financial but also, for some, linked to land tenure or access to inputs. Feedback from farmers’ associations corroborated this picture, with associations also citing consequences including debt carry-overs linked to input advances, reduced profitability, and, in some cases, risks to land lease renewal #Turkmenistan @ilo @ILO_EECA
State-imposed forced labor in Turkmenistan’s cotton harvest is widespread, systematic, and entirely directed by the government @mimit_gov @usbsindacato
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Business associations, textile machinery manufacturers, brands, and other supply chain actors must stop all investments in Turkmenistan’s textile industry to avoid benefitting or profiting from systematic and widespread state-imposed forced labor in Turkmen cotton production #Turkmenistan @cottoncampaign @mimit_gov @usbsindacato @BHRCmedia @cgilnazionale @CislNazionale @UILofficial https://t.co/QiuwXX8v8I
ACIMIT reported that in 2023 alone, its members sold €13 million worth of textile machinery to Turkmen entities. All cotton in Turkmenistan is produced by the state, with the systematic and widespread forced labor of state employees, and sometimes child labor #Turkmenistan #forcedlabor @ACIMIT_info
The International Labour Organization describes forced labor in cotton harvest in Turkmenistan as a systemic, state-sponsored problem. The government has not acknowledged the problem publicly. This gift giving tradition of Turkmens to international organizations does not bode well for the public #Turkmenistan @cottoncampaign @ILO_EECA https://t.co/1MhDyZzpD6
The government is providing abysmal Internet this week. Human development, economic diversification and digital development are not possible due to severe censorship and restrictive internet environment in Turkmenistan #Turkmenistan https://t.co/3N988DCqYN
While the political and economic elite, high-ranking officials enjoy stable and uncensored internet, ordinary citizens in Turkmenistan are pushed into digital poverty and self-censorship deepening economic and digital inequality. Digital poverty in Turkmenistan stems from aggressive and sustained state censorship, restricted access to information, and prohibitively high internet costs https://t.co/SndYag8zR6
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