ASTANA (TCA) — The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan and with the support

TASHKENT (TCA) — The European Union and Uzbekistan are to hold the highest-level political meeting since the death of longtime Uzbek President

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee say that Tajikistan authorities have detained, interrogated, and

ASTANA (TCA) — Governments in many post-Soviet states, including Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, consider foreign-funded NGOs a threat to

ALMATY (TCA) — Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have sentenced an ethnic Kazakh man to 12 years' imprisonment after

ASHGABAT (TCA) — A human rights group says that Akmurat Rejepov, who was Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov's longtime security chief and

LONDON (TCA) — A radical shift in domestic policy in and regarding China’s northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang, replacing communal

TASHKENT (TCA) — The Washington-based rights watchdog Freedom House said in a report released on August 28 that the international community

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Two human rights groups — the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR) in Vienna and the New York-based Human Rights Watch

BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has found a journalist guilty of inciting religious hatred in a book, and sentenced him to four years in

ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan will host the 5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) starting September 17 amid an appalling record of

ASTANA (TCA) — An OSCE-supported analytical report, produced by the Human Rights Commission under the President, on the rights of migrant workers

BISHKEK (TCA) — Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is appalled by Kyrgyzstan journalist Zulpukar Sapanov’s four-year jail sentence for

TASHKENT (TCA) — In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev pledged to

TASHKENT (TCA) — After years of being condemned by international rights organizations for the use of forced and child labor on cotton fields, the

TASHKENT (TCA) — A jailed Uzbek human rights activist, Azam Farmonov, whose 2006 extortion conviction was widely seen as politically motivated,

TASHKENT (TCA) — As behind-the-scenes resistance to Uzbek President Mirziyoyev’s reform policies remains strong inside Uzbekistan, posing a

TASHKENT (TCA) — The raft of reforms under way in Uzbekistan must invest in the promotion and protection of human rights, including freedom of

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Greece should not extradite, deport or otherwise facilitate the return of a Tajik opposition activist to Tajikistan, where he

DUSHANBE (TCA) — The European Union and Tajikistan on October 12 held their ninth Human Rights Dialogue in Dushanbe. The Dialogue was an