Posted April 19, 2013 by Nicolas Giroux & filed under Central Asia, Development 2.0, Disaster response.

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This report covers the period 01/Jan/12 to 30/Jun/12.

Overview

(Berlin, May 12, 2012) – The European Union and the United States should re-examine their relationships with the Uzbek government in light of its atrocious rights record, Human Rights Watch said today on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the government massacre at Andijan, Uzbekistan. Both the EU and the US have been enhancing their relationships with the Uzbek government.

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Uzbekistan is adopting a child-friendly approach to increase the number of children attending pre-school, according to UNICEF.

The schools are trying to create a safe, inclusive, engaging environment that operates in the best interest of every child.

Pre-school enrolment remains low, with less than 20 per cent of children between the ages of 3 and 5 attending pre-school.

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1. Who are we?

The IFRC secretariat is organised in business groups:five decentralised Zone offices and four business groups at the Geneva secretariat. The Europe Zone Office is one of the five decentralised zone offices with several regional and country offices reporting to it. As of the beginning of 2011 the Regional Representation in Almaty has been providing

The United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, which was established through the initiative of the Government of Japan, decided to extend assistance totalling 3,944,787 US dollars (approximately 351 million yen) to a project entitled "Sustaining Livelihoods Affected by the Aral Sea Disaster", which is going to be implemented in the Republic of Uzbekistan (Karakalpakstan) by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Don’t Lift Restrictions Linked to Human Rights Until Tashkent Shows Improvement

(New York) – The US Congress should reject an Obama administration proposal to drop restrictions on assistance to the Uzbek government that are linked to that government’s atrocious human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. The restrictions, in place since 2004, should be lifted only when the Uzbek government significantly improves its practices, Human Rights Watch said.

By Muhammad Tahir

Qubay Ortiqov is a farmer from Karakalpakstan, a remote region in the Central Asian state of Uzbekistan.

"We have planted cotton with expectations, but we cannot irrigate it. Right now we're supposed to have finished the second stage of irrigation, but we haven't been able to do it," Ortiqov said, adding that he had lost 20 hectares of cotton.