Tajikistan

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION) Strasbourg, 3 October 2013 CODE OF JUDICIAL ETHICS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN TABLE OF CONTENTS I.  Chapter 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS II. Chapter 2 GENEChapter 1 RAL REQUIREMENTS GOVERNING […]

Umeddzhon Tojiev, an activist from one of Tajikistan’s major opposition parties allegedly threw himself out of the third floor window of a police station following interrogation. He had been arrested for ’insubordination to police officers’.

EastTime.ru Over the next three months, the countries belonging to the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will carry out the first stage of strengthening Tajikistan’s border with neighboring Afghanistan. This information told […]

REPORT: from UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with representatives of non-governmental organizations to hear information on the situation of women in […]

Two years after the release of a report calling for increased protection of the rights of Tajik migrant workers, in June 2013 FIDH and ADC Memorial returned to Tajikistan to investigate institutional and legal changes and new challenges faced by Tajikmigrant workers and their families. Particular attention was paid to gendered aspects of migration, the situation of women migrants and of the spouses of migrant workers.

Global Voices Alexander Sodiqov An international conference on water cooperation ended in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, on August 21. More than 900 representatives from about 70 countries and organizations attended the conference. Yet the […]

Armanshahr Human rights and civil society periodical, Issues 31-32, August 2013 published. Special issue on 7 years of Public GOFTEGU debates

By Daisy Sindelar, Umid Bobomatov, Torokul Doorov, Normahmad Kholov and Ganjina Ganjova Khusanjon, a 44-year-old labor migrant from Uzbekistan, was expecting a busy Sunday at the Khovansky construction market in southwest Moscow. Instead, he and […]

Written by Vasilina Brazhko The Times of Central Asia DUSHANBE (TCA) ¬– Russian diplomats found “forces ready to endanger the safety of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Dushanbe.” They have announced this due […]

Mr Rooholamin Amini (Deputy director of Armanshahr Foundation), moderator of Armanshahr’s 118th Goftegu public debate that was held on 3 July 2013, presented a report on the activities of Armanshahr in the past seven years as follows.