According to the ILO’s official data, about 28 million people worldwide became victims of forced labor in 2021. 11 million of them were women and about 4 million are children.

On March 16, 2023, an Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State of the Organization of Turkic States (OTG) was held in Ankara on the topic of emergency management and humanitarian assistance. The event is notable for the fact that for the first time the heads of the Turkic countries gathered at the top-level platform to discuss issues related to the development of cooperation in the fight against natural disasters and their consequences.
 

 Large-scale work is underway in our country aimed at creating a compact and professional public administration system. In this process, special attention is paid to ensuring timely and effective implementation of Administrative Reforms, organizing the activities of the executive authorities of the Republic on the basis of updated requirements and principles.
 

Current state and prospects of development

On March 24, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting to discuss the course of privatization of state property and plans for the current year.

On March 23, under the chairmanship of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a video conference was held on measures to increase food production, effective organization of the spring sowing season.

The relevance of the Presidential decree "On approval of the National Human Rights Education Program in the Republic of Uzbekistan" dated February 7, 2023 is due to the theoretical and practical significance of issues related to ensuring human rights and freedoms in the New Uzbekistan.

The international non-governmental organization Transparency International has announced the results of the Corruption Perception Index for 2022. Our country with 31 points took the 126th place among 180 countries in it and, having increased the number of points by three, was able to improve its position by 14 lines (in 2021 - 140th place). Uzbekistan, as a state showing growth rates in this index over the past six years, is noted among the countries of Eastern Europe and the Central Asian region systematically implementing anti-corruption reforms. This growth is a positive result of work in the field of anti-corruption.