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31 Dec 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 4 others
Central Asia Human Development Report

Report
— UN Development Programme
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Executive summary

Increased cooperation among the Central Asian republics stands to produce big gains for the people of the region. The benefits from reducing trade costs, increasing remittances from migrant workers, and more efficient use of water and energy resources could generate a regional economy twice as large and well off 10 years from now. The price of non-cooperation could also be large, a heavy toll extracted from the spread of disease, lost economic opportunities, natural disasters and environmental destruction, as well as conflict and insecurity. Both costs and benefits

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30 Dec 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: Do not return Uzbek refugees

Report
— Human Rights Watch
(New York, December 30, 2005) - Kyrgyz authorities must not return refugees to Uzbekistan where they are at risk of torture, Human Rights Watch said today in an open letter to Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev.

Five men currently in detention in Kyrgyzstan are facing possible extradition to Uzbekistan. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has formally recognized four -- Yakub Tashbaev, Rasul Pirmatov, Jahongir Maksudov, Odiljan Rahimov -- as refugees. The fifth, identified only by his surname, Tadjihalilov, is an asylum seeker,

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16 Dec 2005

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: A faltering state

Report
— International Crisis Group
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Asia Report N°109 - 16 December 2005 - Bishkek/Brussels
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Kyrgyzstan's post-revolution government lurches from crisis to crisis in the face of worsening political violence, prison revolts, serious property disputes and popular disillusion. There is a growing sense that it is barely less corrupt than its predecessor and perhaps less competent. The security services are slipping out of government control, raising the prospect of more chaos and criminality. If Kyrgyzstan is not to become a failed state whose fate reinforces the views of its

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12 Dec 2005

Kyrgyzstan
Government of India donates humanitarian aid worth Rs. 22.13 lakh to Government of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan

Report
— Government of India
New Delhi, December 12, 2005 - Government of India has donated medical equipment and medicines worth Rs. 22.13 lakh to Government of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan as humanitarian aid. The material was handed over, in a ceremony held in Bishkek on December 8, 2005, to H.E. Mr Aidaraliev, Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of the Kyrgyz Republic by Shri A. Ramesh, Ambassador of India to the Kyrgyz Republic.

This was in response to a request received from the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic seeking assistance to mitigate

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12 Dec 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 3 others
Roundtable: activists discuss human rights in Central Asia

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
On 10 December, RFE/RL's Tajik Service hosted a roundtable discussion on human rights in Central Asia. Roundtable participants included Tursunbek Akun, chairman of the Kyrgyz Presidential Human Rights Commission; Yevgenii Zhovitis, a leading human rights activist in Kazakhstan; Surat Ikromov, a leading human rights activist in Uzbekistan; and Shokirjon Hakimov, a Tajik lawyer and parliamentarian from the Social-Democratic Party. The roundtable was moderated by RFE/RL Tajik Service Deputy Director Normohamad Kholov.

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24 Nov 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: Four Andijan refugees still being held

Report
— IRIN
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ANKARA, 24 November (IRIN) - Four Uzbek refugees continue to languish in a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, more than six months after fleeing a violent government crackdown in the southern Uzbek city of Andijan.

"Their status remains the same. They're still in detention," Vitaly Masalousky, acting country representative for the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), confirmed from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on Thursday.

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23 Nov 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 2 others
Central Asia: Young rescuers prepare to save lives

Report
— European Commission Humanitarian Aid department
Firdauz is a secondary school student from the Isfara region of Tajikistan, and a member of the DIPECHO Young Rescuers Group (YRG) in his community. "In our village, natural disasters happen every year. Very often, many families suffer greatly from such disasters; some are left without shelter, and there has been loss of life," he explains. "After disasters, it takes a very long time to repair damaged homes, fields and other aspects of life. We didn't even know how we could protect ourselves and others from disasters, how to give medical assistance
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10 Nov 2005

Uzbekistan + 1 other
Uzbekistan: Andijan refugees await third-country resettlement in Romania

Report
— IRIN
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ANKARA, 10 November (IRIN) - More than 400 Uzbek refugees from Andijan who fled violence in the eastern Uzbek city are currently living in Romania after an evacuation by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from Kyrgyzstan in July, and awaiting third-country resettlement.

"Uzbek refugees live in an accommodation centre in the western city of Timisoara, run by the National Refugee Office [under the Romanian interior ministry]. They are accommodated in three

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10 Nov 2005

Uzbekistan + 1 other
Uzbekistan: Andijon refugees in Romania have escaped violence, but not heartache

Report
— Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Prague, 10 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Ismoiljon's birth on 23 October in a refugee camp in the western Romanian city of Timisoara was a moment of joy for his mother, Roziya, and the other Uzbek refugees in Romania.
Nineteen-year-old Roziya was pregnant when the shooting started on Andijon's central square on 13 May. She fled to Kyrgyzstan with her mother and mother-in-law and many other Andijon residents. She and 438 other refugees were transferred to Romania in late July, where most are still awaiting a UN decision on their final destination.

Roziya says the whole camp celebrated

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05 Nov 2005

Uzbekistan + 2 others
Out of sight, out of mind? - Central Asia's hidden poverty

Report
— Christian Aid
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A briefing for MPs
'In other countries, the food we eat would be thrown to the livestock.
- Self-help group leader, Tuto village, southern Tajikistan

This year, the media spotlight has fallen on political developments in the former Soviet states of central Asia.(1) The 'Tulip revolution' in Uzbekistan have underlined the weak legitimacy of existing regimes, and also raised questions about what role the West should play in the region.

However, Christian Aid believes that policy-makers are overlooking what is one of the main causes of the recent

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31 Oct 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 2 others
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Landmine threat along Uzbek border removed

Report
— IRIN
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OSH, 31 October (IRIN) - Uzbek security forces have demined the country's eastern border with Kyrgyzstan, with work under way to clear landmines from the Tajik part of the Uzbek border as well, officials said on Monday.

Kyrgyz border units in the southern province of Batken have completed inspections of minefields near the border settlements of Chonkara, Ak-Turpak and Otukchu, which were cleared by Uzbek demining squads, and confirmed that the border was now landmine-free.

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26 Oct 2005

Kyrgyzstan
Karel De Gucht backs a pilot project for human rights in Kyrgyzstan

Report
— Government of Belgium
Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht has decided to unblock 300,000 EUR (from the budget for conflict prevention) for a pilot project covering the period 2005-2007 aimed at developing a national system for promoting and protecting human rights in the Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

The pilot project falls under the UN initiative dubbed Action 2, which was launched by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and aims to boost local capacity in the human rights sector. The money will be paid into a fund managed by the UNDP (United Nations

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20 Oct 2005

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan: Intestinal diseases on the increase

Report
— IRIN
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BISHKEK, 20 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Lack of access to clean drinking water and an unregulated street trade have fuelled a rise in intestinal disease in Kyrgyzstan, according to health officials.

Alla Sarkina, deputy head of the Republican Infectious Diseases Hospital in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, said there were many causes of intestinal infections, including consumption of out-of-date food and inadequate personal hygiene. "But of course the main ones are

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20 Oct 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyz refugees long for recognition

Report
— Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Poverty and lack of legal status hit women hardest in the refugee community.
By Aida Kasymalieva in Bishkek (WP No. 12, 20-Oct-05)

Eight years after the Tajik civil war, some of the refugees who fled to Kyrgyzstan say they continue to face discrimination because they have been unable to take out citizenship there. In this community, which is overwhelmingly of ethnic Kyrgyz origin, women find themselves further marginalised by poverty and lack of education.

Most of the Kyrgyz refugees live in the Chui region around the capital Bishkek in the north of Kyrgyzstan. Some

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18 Oct 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
UN independent expert stresses urgent need for resettlement of four Uzbek citizens

Report
— UN Commission on Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued the following statement today:

The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Leandro Despouy, recently visited Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

During his mission to Kyrgyzstan, he was given the opportunity to meet with four Uzbek citizens being held in detention facilities in Osh, the main city in the south of Kyrgyzstan. The four fled the mid-May events in Andijan, Uzbekistan, which a report

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05 Oct 2005

Afghanistan + 3 others
Rice will visit Afghanistan, Central Asia October 10-13

Report
— US Department of State
Trip aims to "encourage progress" on political, human-rights efforts
By Tim Receveur, Washington File Staff Writer

Washington - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan October 10-13 to "encourage progress" on political, economic, security and human-rights efforts in the region, the State Department announced.

Her trip closely follows a visit to the region by Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried September 26-30. (See related article). It comes as votes still are being counted for Afghanistan's

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03 Oct 2005

occupied Palestinian territory + 5 others
Amnesty International's concerns at the 56th session of the Executive Committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Report
— Amnesty
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Introduction

Around the world Amnesty International continues to document serious violations of the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons (IDPs). The reluctance of states to provide access to procedures and effective protection to individuals who are forced to leave their homes and places of origin remains of concern to the organization. As an observer at the 56th session of the Executive Committee (EXCOM) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Amnesty International takes the opportunity to present its concerns

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19 Sep 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 2 others
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Uzbekistan: Working to reduce conflict in the Ferghana valley

Report
— IRIN
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OSH, 19 September (IRIN) - Children in Uzbek, Tajik and Kyrgyz national dress performed a play recently at a UN-sponsored summer camp designed to confront border tension in the poverty-stricken Ferghana valley region of Central Asia.

The piece of theatre - in which children from different communities in the border region were able to resolve conflict despite their ethnic and linguistic differences - marked the end of the camp.

The event was organised by the United

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16 Sep 2005

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
United Nations Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers to visit Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Report
— UN Commission on Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Leandro Despouy, will visit two countries in Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan from 18 to 24 September and Tajikistan from 25 September to 1 October 2005.
The Special Rapporteur intends to study the progress made to date in both countries regarding the criminal justice system and to follow up on issues such as independence of the judiciary, access and equality in the justice system and promotion of human rights
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16 Sep 2005

Uzbekistan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: UNHCR airlifts 11 more Uzbek refugees out

Report
— IRIN
[This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]

ANKARA, 16 September (IRIN) - The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed on Friday it had successfully evacuated eleven more Uzbek nationals - part of the original Andijan 15 - out of Kyrgyzstan for third country resettlement.

"I can confirm that the group has left Kyrgyzstan and is now bound for London," Carlos Zaccagnini, chief of mission for UNHCR, said from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, referring

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