No place for independent cotton cooperatives in New Uzbekistan
Cooperatives are being shut down through arbitrary application of the law and the determination of...
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Fundamental Freedoms
Will Uzbekistan’s first democratically elected trade union survive?
By changing the status of employees to “service providers”, Indorama Agro is decimating union...
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Insults, Slander and Human Rights: Uzbek Bloggers Pay a Heavy Price for Exercising Freedom of Speech
An amendment to Uzbekistan’s criminal code that criminalizes online public insult or slander of...
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Uzbek Bloggers and Activists Under Attack – the Cases Mount
As events in Kazakhstan continue to spook neighboring Central Asian countries whose populations...
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Punitive Psychiatric Detention in Uzbekistan: Silencing Human Rights Activists
A new report by Uzbek Forum for Human Rights (Uzbek Forum), Punitive Psychiatric Detention in...
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The Shrinking Space for Freedom of Speech in Uzbekistan Puts Journalists and Activists at Risk
On February 4, 2021 President Mirziyoyev made the following public statement to journalists: “You...
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Chronicle of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Uzbekistan: Riots, Ill Treatment and Suicides in Quarantine Facilities Amid Applause from International Organizations
The Special Commission on Combating Covid-19 has strengthened quarantine measures throughout...
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Remembering Andijan
On the fifteenth anniversary of the Andijan massacre in May 2005 that killed an estimated 500...
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On the other side of the fence: Report on human rights monitoring in places of detention in Uzbekistan
Uzbek prison guard: “Your life costs only 50 cents. It is a price of a piece of paper used to...
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Uzbekistan: New Law Further Undermines Lawyer Client Confidentiality
Amendments expand the power of the prosecutor to conduct surveillance of communications between...
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Can communities lead their own development in places where civil society is severely restricted? Development banks think so.
By Ishita Petkar and Lynn Schweisfurth In recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on a...
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Failure to Register – Please Submit Again: Uzbek Human Rights NGO Rejected Once More
The latest refusal by the Uzbek authorities to register Chiroq, an independent human rights...
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