Uzbekistan has pledged more transparency in a cotton industry blighted by a reputation for relying on child labor and press-ganging of unwilling individuals.

It was supposed to be a day of festivities at a world-famous art museum out in the desert of western Uzbekistan. Instead, the stench of scandal sullied the occasion.

Uzbek fashion designer Saida Amir is part of a crop of talented, go-getting designers pushing Uzbekistan's garment industry forward following the removal of Gulnara Karimova from the country's fashion scene

An Almaty hospital has been caught trading in children, selling newborns to desperate childless parents for a few thousand dollars apiece.

Prominent human rights activist Yelena Urlayeva was detained and abused by police while monitoring the Uzbek government's use of forced labor in its springtime cotton planting effort on May 31, she told ...

Kazakhstan has struck down a controversial law that would have outlawed "propaganda" of homosexuality to minors, amid signs the legislation was damaging the country's bid to host the Winter Olympics.

"I apologize that for super-democratic states such [high] figures are unacceptable," said President Nursultan Nazarbayev oh his election victory. "If I had interfered, I would have been undemocratic."

Every year the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan creates a storm of controversy over the use of forced and child labor.

One day last summer, Viktor Kazachenko set off across the steppe from his village in northern Kazakhstan, driving to the nearest town on some errands — but he never arrived.

Russia's aggressive actions toward Ukraine are vexing Central Asian states.