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BISHKEK (TCA) — The US has already paid little attention to Central Asia in recent years, and under the Trump administration, Washington’s political, and economic, interest and influence in the region may even diminish. Here below we are republishing this article on the issue, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — On February 27, U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela Spratlen, along with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia Dan Rosenblum, presented manuals on counter trafficking for labor migrants to the National Human Rights Centre (NHRC) of Uzbekistan at a ceremony in Tashkent. The manual was developed through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) supported Counter Trafficking project, implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The manual was written in coordination with the NHRC and the Office of the Prosecutor General, which chairs the National Inter-Agency Commission on Counter Trafficking. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan are using “increasingly elaborate and aggressive methods to stamp out dissenting voices on the Internet and social media,” Amnesty International says. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s appalling human rights record undermines the possibility of a free and fair presidential election on February 12, 2017, Human Rights Watch said on February 7. The election climate in Turkmenistan denies its citizens the ability to choose their president freely or enjoy freedom of expression or access to information. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — The International Labor Organization (ILO) says the Government of Uzbekistan is making progress in reforms to address risks of forced labor in its cotton industry. In a report released on February 1, following its independent monitoring of the 2016 cotton harvest season, the ILO concludes organized child labor is now socially unacceptable in Uzbekistan and the practice has been phased out, the World Bank said in a press release. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A Kyrgyz court in Bishkek on January 24 upheld the 2010 guilty verdict and life imprisonment sentence against ethnic Uzbek rights activist Azimjan Askarov. Continue reading
