ILO Slams Kazakhstan for Long-Standing Labor Rights Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A worker prepares pipes to service an oil well on oil fields operated by a subsidiary of the KazMunayGas Exploration Production JSC in Kyzylorda region, southern Kazakhstan on January 21, 2016. © 2016 Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters The International Labour Organization (ILO) has slammed Kazakhstan again for harassing union leaders. At the ILO’s annual conference earlier this month, Kazakhstan drew the ire of the Committee on the Application of Standards, which reviews states’ compliance with international labor rights conventions. Kazakhstan has been reprimanded by the…

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