"The Government’s Riches, the People’s Burden", April 2015

..In 2014 the government of Uzbekistan carried out a program of mass extortion and increased its use of systematic, mass forced mobilization of labor to harvest cotton... Two multinational companies – Telia Sonera and Telenor – have publically acknowledged supporting the forced labor system through contributions in 2014, claiming it is a prerequisite for conducting business in Uzbekistan, and employees of a third, General Motors, reported that they were again sent to pick cotton...