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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The families of migrants who have left Tajikistan in search of work abroad will be an important focus of a new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) project set to get under way here soon, FAO in Tajikistan said on July 12. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the Government of Finland, on June 23 launched a conference on Employment, Trade, and Sustainable Development in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, the UNDP in Kazakhstan said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — According to the Central Bank of Russia, in the first quarter of 2016 money remittances from Russia to CIS countries amounted to $914 million, which is almost twice as less than in the first quarter 2015 ($1.781 billion) and 3.7-fold less than in the same period in the pre-crisis year 2014 ($3.364 billion). Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — A new report on global slavery ranks Uzbekistan among the five worst offenders in terms of the number of people forced into modern slavery, RFE/RL reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As labor migration to Russia remains an important source of income for many families in Central Asian states, we are republishing the following article by Marta Ter, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As there are signs in Russia of renewed surge in radical nationalism and xenophobia towards labor migrants from Central Asian countries, here below we are republishing an article originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
