Concacaf Referee Named for Asian Football Confederation Champions League Semifinal
Miami (Friday, October 19, 2018) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) and The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) today announced that Mark Geiger, two-time FIFA World Cup veteran and 2014 Concacaf Referee of the Year,…
Real progress or smokescreen?
By Tate Johnston, From Freedom United < Is this progress or just a smokescreen? Recent reports from Uzbekistan are conflicting, what should we make of them? The government is making promising commitments to tackle forced labor in Uzbekistan. But the…
Malokhat needs you
From Freedom United Journalist and human rights activist, Malokhat Eshonkulova was detained at Tashkent airport on her way to a labor rights seminar in Kyrgyzstan in December. Malokhat was invited to present her work monitoring forced and child labor in…
Help protect Malokhat TODAY
From Freedom United We must do something now. On November 12, Uzbek police raided the home of journalist and human rights advocate Malokhat Eshonkulova, and confiscated some of her belongings, including electric heaters, in a nearly 11-hour search for her computer and cell phone. Malokhat is being targeted for her…
T-rex killing machine
By Stephen Brusatte, The Conversation From Business Insider A new discovery shows how the T-rex transformed from ordinary creatures to killing machines Tyrannosaurus rex is an icon, a dinosaur known to nearly everyone on the planet. It doesn’t get much…
Slavery in the cotton fields still exists
From Debra Rosen, Walk Free You may think forced labour in cotton fields has been consigned to the history books, a relic of the transatlantic slave trade. But in Uzbekistan every year over a million children and adults are forced…
