This manual provides an overview of climate-driven stressors relevant to transport infrastructure in Central Asia and explores adaptation strategies. Over the next decades, the effects of climate...
Uzbekistan + 4 more
Uzbekistan + 4 more
This manual provides an overview of climate-driven stressors relevant to transport infrastructure in Central Asia and explores adaptation strategies. Over the next decades, the effects of climate...
Executive Summary Purpose of the Road Map Development The purpose of this road map is to assess the current capabilities of the Hydrometeorological Service of Uzbekistan (Uzhydromet) to produce and...
This Migration Governance Indicators (MGI) profile presents a summary of well-developed areas of migration governance in Uzbekistan as well as areas with potential for further development, as assessed...
FOREWORD Climate change is a major risk to good development outcomes, and the World Bank Group is committed to playing an important role in helping countries integrate climate action into their core...
Summary For several weeks in the fall of 2015, government officials forced Firuza, a 47-year-old grandmother, to harvest cotton in Turtkul, a district in Uzbekistan’s most western region, the...
POLITICAL With presidential elections looming on the horizon (see earlier FAST Updates), campaigning should have been high on the political agenda during this reporting period. There was, however,...
Bishkek/Brussels, 22 August 2007: The international community must brace for civil conflict in Uzbekistan when the dictatorial president, Islom Karimov, leaves office. "Uzbekistan: Stagnation and...
OVERVIEW Bishkek/Brussels, 22 August 2007 Uzbekistan remains a serious risk to itself and its region. While 69-year-old President Islom Karimov shows no signs of relinquishing power, despite the end...
Political The second anniversary of the Andijon tragedy on 13 May 2005 was one of the main issues during this reporting period. The European Union accepts that there was an armed insurgency but...
Reports from Uzbekistan suggest there is little evidence of human rights improvements that would warrant the removal of sanctions. By Caroline Tosh in London and IWPR staff in Central Asia (RCA No...
Political The period under review has seen trials of several human rights activists, oppositionists and independent journalists. The most prominent case is the one of independent journalist Umida...
Uzbekistan remained an authoritarian country ruled by President Islam Karimov, where democratic norms and international human rights standards were routinely violated. Throughout the year, the Uzbek...
Asia Briefing N°54 OVERVIEW After the indiscriminate killing of civilians by Uzbek security forces in the city of Andijon in 2005, the European Union imposed targeted sanctions on the government of...
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The troubled heart of Central Asia When the five Central Asian republics rose from the ashes of the Soviet Union in 1991, they inherited immense problems that would have tested the resilience of any...
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Asia Report N=B0113 - 10 April 2006 - Bishkek/Brussels EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The European Union is not living up to its potential as a geopolitical actor in Central Asia. The level of...
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Asia Briefing N°45 - 16 February 2006 Bishkek/Brussel OVERVIEW Economic misrule and political repression have left Uzbekistan in a woeful state. President Islam Karimov's intransigence has meant that...
On May 13, 2005, Uzbek government military and security forces shot and killed hundreds of unarmed civilians gathered for a protest in the eastern city of Andizhan - an extreme measure to silence...
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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...
Executive summary He started beating me and yelling, 'You are lying! You are hiding the truth! We have information that you were on the square with an automatic gun. Confess!' And [he] punched me in...
Introduction "We don't shoot at women and children in Uzbekistan." (President Karimov, Press Conference, 14 May) "We could not believe that our own people were shooting at us. We thought they must be...