This is the second part of the Cotton harvest campaign monitoring prepared by Alternative Turkmenistan News (ATN), a civil media initiative founded in 2010. The key message of this monitoring is that by sending tens of thousands of state-employed people to harvest cotton every autumn the Turkmen authorities for years have been violating the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Convention №105, which prohibits forced labor and Convention №29 on forced labor. Besides, the practice of forcing people to pick cotton goes against Turkmenistan’s own Labor Code, chapter 8 of which defines forced labor as “all work or service exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.”