On December 5, 2024, Svetlana Dzardanova, a human rights and corruption researcher at Freedom for Eurasia, participated in an event held at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Organized by the Central Asian Alliance to End Gender-Based Violence (CA Alliance) in partnership with […]
On Anti-Corruption Day (IACD), observed annually on December 9, we emphasize the importance of addressing corruption in our societies. This day commemorates the adoption of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2003. Corruption remains a significant barrier to development, democracy, and good governance. With 190 countries, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
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On November 15, 2023, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed amendments to Uzbekistan’s law “On the legal status of foreign nationals and stateless persons”. These changes, specifically to Articles 29(1) and 35(1), aim to enhance state security and sovereignty through the inclusion of foreign individuals who engage in public actions or calls that oppose the state’s interests
In Uzbekistan, women are often killed by men close to them – intimate partners and family members – and usually at their own homes, a space meant to be safe. Here is what our recent research reveals. By Niginakhon Saida and Svetlana Dzardanova “Each time a woman or girl is killed by men and tolerated by patriarchal social
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Vienna December 03, 2024 Freedom for Eurasia welcomes the recent sanctions imposed by the Global Magnitsky Act (GloMag) on three Uzbek officials involved in heinous acts of human trafficking and gender-based violence, particularly against vulnerable children in state-run orphanages. In the spring 2023 Yulduz Khudaiberganova was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison and barred from
According to “Hook” media today, around 19:00 Tashkent time, the film crew of journalist Alexey Pivovarov was detained in Nukus along withjournalist of “Hook” media Feride Makhsetova. The detention was based on a statement filed by a local resident. The crew is currently held at the Nukus Department of Internal Affairs—they have been allowed to keep their
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