The World Bank has been accused of potentially violating international law by providing agricultural loans to the government of Uzbekistan, which uses forced labour in the country's cotton sector... In November the World bank said ILO monitoring found no conclusive information that beneficiries of World Bank-supported projects used child or forced labour during the 2015 cotton harvest.  However, it expressed "serious concerns" about the risks of forced labour associated with the widespread organised recruitment of adults for cotton harvesting.