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22 Jul 2011

Kyrgyzstan + 2 others
Tents delivered to earthquake victims

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— IRIN

ISTANBUL, 22 July 2011 (IRIN) - A 19 July earthquake measuring eight on the Richter scale in southern Kyrgyzstan has left hundreds of people without shelter.

No deaths have been reported, though two people have been hospitalized with concussion, the national Ministry for Emergency Situations (MES) said in a press release on its website.

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17 Jun 2010

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
KYRGYZSTAN-UZBEKISTAN: Refugees in numbers

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DUBAI, 17 June 2010 (IRIN) - Ethnic Uzbek women, children and the elderly living in southern Kyrgyzstan continue to flee clashes with Kyrgyz groups and cross the nearby border into Uzbekistan in search of security and shelter [http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=89509]. The UN, regional governments and aid agencies have called for an immediate end to the violence, the protection of vulnerable persons and the facilitation of humanitarian assistance to those in need in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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16 Jun 2010

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
KYRGYZSTAN-UZBEKISTAN: Tens of thousands of refugees in need of assistance

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DUBAI, 16 June 2010 (IRIN) - Clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz groups in southern Kyrgyzstan since 10 June have killed at least 170 people, injured 1,762 and forced 300,000 to flee their homes, according to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Health and UN agencies.

Among the 300,000 displaced are about 75,000 ethnic Uzbeks who have crossed the border into Uzbekistan and registered as refugees, according to Uzbek authorities. Some estimates put the number as high as 100,000, mostly staying in 75 camps around Andjian, Uzbekistan's

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06 Jun 2010

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
KYRGYZSTAN-UZBEKISTAN: Concerns over tension in Uzbek enclave border areas

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BISHKEK, 6 June 2010 (IRIN) - Confrontation last week between the residents of two villages on both sides of the border of an Uzbek enclave in Kyrgyzstan highlights the risk of further conflict over the use of natural resources in Ferghana Valley, according to analysts.

Shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the rich and fertile Ferghana Valley is Central Asia's most densely populated area with some 11 million residents. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ferghana Valley has had intermittent localized conflicts over water and land.

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26 May 2010

Kazakhstan + 4 others
TAJIKISTAN: Anti-polio drive widens

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DUSHANBE, 26 May 2010 (IRIN) - Tajikistan is gearing up for a new round of anti-polio immunizations for children aged between six and 15, according to the Ministry of Health, in a bid to stem the outbreak.

"We can already see the results of the first [round of the] campaign - for children under six. The number of confirmed cases is not increasing so fast as it was in the beginning of the outbreak [in April]," deputy health minister Azamjon Safolov told IRIN in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe.

The new round will be implemented in two phases in early and mid-June.

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09 Apr 2008

Kyrgyzstan + 3 others
Central Asia: Iodised salt, fortified flour: What are the next nutrition challenges?

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ASHGABAT, 9 April 2008 (IRIN) - Health officials and experts gathered at a regional forum in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, on 8 April to assess the achievements and challenges relating to mother and child nutrition in Central Asia.

Over 100 participants, including health officials from the five Central Asian countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - international health experts and representatives of donor agencies and the UN in Central Asia are attending the two-day event co-organised by the Turkmen government and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).

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25 Apr 2007

Kyrgyzstan + 3 others
Central Asia: Regional water management lacks cohesion

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— IRIN
ALMATY, 25 April 2007 (IRIN) - As officials and water specialists from across Central Asia gathered in the Kazakh commercial capital of Almaty to mark a decade and a half of post-Soviet efforts to regulate scarce water supplies in the region, there are doubts about whether they are prepared to make committed efforts to assure water security for the region's more than 55 million inhabitants.

The meeting, which opened on 24 April, is the 47th time the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) - comprising delegates from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan

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29 Aug 2006

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: UNHCR to relocate Uzbek asylum seekers from south to capital

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 29 August (IRIN) - The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) plans to move a group of Uzbek asylum seekers from southern Kyrgyzstan to the capital, Bishkek, to protect them.

Carlos Zaccagnini, head of the UNHCR's mission in Bishkek, said on Tuesday that it had offered to relocate some of the refugees pending the determination of their status and likely resettlement to third countries.

Zaccagnini's comments came after five

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14 Aug 2006

Uzbekistan + 1 other
Uzbekistan: Rights groups fear refugees will be tortured

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 14 August (IRIN) - Human rights groups have expressed serious concerns about the safety of five men recently extradited by Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan for their alleged involvement in last year's anti-government protests in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan.

Bahtiyor Khamroev, an activist with the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan, said on Monday that the men's "lives and well-being" were under real threat in Uzbek prisons.

"We are very concerned about their

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01 Aug 2006

Uzbekistan + 1 other
Uzbekistan: Hundreds of Andijan refugees resettled

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ANKARA, 1 Aug 2006 (IRIN) - Hundreds of Uzbek refugees have been resettled in a third country after being flown to Romania last year following a government crackdown on protesters, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed on Tuesday.

Several hundred Uzbeks fled to neighbouring Kyrgyzstan one year earlier after security forces quelled dissent in the eastern city of Andijan on 13 May 2005, killing up to 1,000 - mainly unarmed

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28 Jul 2006

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: More Andijan victims seek asylum

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OSH, 28 July (IRIN) - At least 14 Uzbek nationals have applied for refugee status in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in the past few days, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and local migration officials have confirmed.

"They are seeking refugee status in Kyrgyzstan and their applications have been duly registered," officials at the Kyrgyz Migration and Employment Agency in Osh said on Friday.

The agency said the group arrived in

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26 Jul 2006

Kazakhstan + 1 other
Central Asia: Aral Sea crisis continues to erode health

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— IRIN
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ANKARA, 26 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - Millions of people living near the Aral Sea face a bleak future, with health experts saying diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and cancer are having a terrible impact.

The sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. However, it continues to shrink despite regional commitments to halt the draining of the rivers that feed it. It is now a quarter of its original size.

Over the last 40 years an estimated 45

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21 Jul 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: No end to crackdown on Western NGOs

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TASHKENT, 21 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - Authorities in Uzbekistan have launched a fresh attempt to shut down another US-funded NGO, Winrock International (WI). This came after the closure earlier in July of the US-funded Urban Institute NGO, amid an ongoing crackdown on Western organisations operating in the Central Asian country.

On Friday, Uzbekistan's justice ministry instructed a Tashkent court to liquidate WI - an agency supporting Uzbek farmers - for gross violation of local laws, press-uz.info, a pro-government

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01 Jun 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: US NGO closed, two more under scrutiny

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TASHKENT, 1 June (IRIN) - A court in Uzbekistan on Thursday ordered the closure of the local office of a US-funded educational organisation for violating domestic laws, including the constitution.

A French aid group and a Hungarian charity are also under scrutiny as the Central Asian country continues to crack down on foreign NGOs in the country.

The Tashkent civil court ordered the liquidation of the American Council for Collaboration in Education and

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23 May 2006

Kyrgyzstan + 3 others
Central Asia: Human rights situation remains poor

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ANKARA, 23 May (IRIN) - Human rights abuses throughout Central Asia remain common despite some positive developments towards reform, a new report by Amnesty International (AI)said on Tuesday.

"There are still a lot of serious issues remaining," Maisy Weicherding, a researcher for the watchdog group's Eurasia team, covering Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, said from London, citing issues of freedom of expression, slander, libel and arbitrary detention.

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11 May 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Fear rules one year on from mass killings

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Andijan, 11 May (IRIN) - Spring is in full bloom in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, with flowers and blossom bushes everywhere. Taking advantage of the good weather, some residents are holding a traditional wedding ceremony in the Bogi-Shamol suburb of the city.

The scene is a complete contrast to the bloody events almost a year ago when Uzbek security forces suppressed a popular demonstration that killed up to 1,000 civilians and left the world cold.

Government forces opened fire indiscriminately

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02 May 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Government closes another American NGO

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Ankara, 2 May (IRIN) - In yet another blow to international NGOs working in Uzbekistan, authorities in that country are now calling for the closure of the US-funded NGO, Counterpart International, citing its systematic violation of Uzbek law, as well as its own charter.

"We just learned of this development last night and we've yet to chart out a strategy on this," Mark Granius, regional director for Counterpart International told IRIN from the Kazakh

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24 Apr 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Crackdown on international organisations continues

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Ankara, 24 April (IRIN) - Uzbek officials announced on Sunday that the local office of another international organisation would be closing its doors in the country where a crackdown on civil society organisations continues to this day.

The closure of the local liaison office of the American Bar Association Central European and Eurasian Law Initiatives' (ABA/CEELI) in the capital of Tashkent follows an Uzbek Justice Ministry decision that the organisation had violated its charter, local media reports said.

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21 Apr 2006

Kyrgyzstan + 1 other
Kyrgyzstan: New Uzbek asylum seekers registered in south

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OSH, 21 April (IRIN) - The number of Uzbek nationals seeking asylum in southern Kyrgyzstan is slowly increasing following the departure of more than 400 Andijan refugees from the country in July.

"There is not a huge influx of asylum seekers from Uzbekistan, [but] there is a slight increase [in them]," Vitaliy Maslovsky, a consultant with the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, said on Thursday.

"A group of them has undergone registration

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20 Apr 2006

Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan: Systematic use of torture continues - UN

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Ankara, 20 April (IRIN) - Concern over the systematic use torture by the Uzbek government has again been raised by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak.

"There is systematic torture and the general conditions in pre-trial detention facilities are worse than prison. There are even reports of electric shocks [administered in detention]," Nowak said from Vienna on Thursday.

His comments came on the same day as Amnesty International (AI) published a statement criticising Uzbekistan's

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