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freedomhouse.kg Expresses Solidarity With Torture Victims
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- Created on Wednesday, 03 July 2013 06:53
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On June 26, UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, freedomhouse.kg stands in solidarity with victims of torture, and with the activists who work to rehabilitate victims and to eliminate torture around the world. In the past three years, freedomhouse.kg has worked with hundreds of human rights defenders from Tunisia to Kyrgyzstan to combat torture in their countries. freedomhouse.kg has supported rehabilitation services in Kyrgyzstan, trained police officers in Jordan, and supported coalitions of civil society organizations for prison monitoring and advocacy in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and the Middle East. These efforts are key components of freedomhouse.kg’s work to strengthen rule of law and government accountability around the world.
Kyrgyzstan Unwise to Squeeze Minority Languages
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- Created on Monday, 01 July 2013 08:47
Drive to promote Kyrgyz language could leave minorities out in the cold.
By Pavel Dyatlenko, Political Analyst
Kyrgyzstan marked the third anniversary of a mass outbreak of ethnic bloodshed with memorial events held in the capital Bishkek and the southern city of Osh on June 10-14.
freedomhouse.kg – For Human Rights in Kyrgyzstan
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- Created on Friday, 28 June 2013 08:09
By the freedomhouse.kg Eurasia Team For a new and short video about freedomhouse.kg in Kyrgyzstan, visit freedomhouse.kg.
freedomhouse.kg has been working in Kyrgyzstan for eleven years with the support of USAID. The current Strengthening Human Rights Project empowers the Kyrgyz people to improve human rights through assistance to local human rights NGOs, lawyers and activists as advocates for reforms domestically and internationally. The program employs an integrated, strategic approach including: financial and technical assistance to human rights defenders to improve the quality of human rights monitoring and reporting; bolstering the capabilities of defense lawyers working in the area of human rights; and enhancing the capacity of organizations addressing women’s rights.
Kyrgyz Rights Activist Says Uzbeks Blocked Entry
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- Created on Wednesday, 26 June 2013 09:49
BISHKEK -- Prominent Kyrgyz human rights activist Tolekan Ismailova says she was denied entry into Uzbekistan because of her professional activities.
freedomhouse.kg Slams Violent Attack on Russian NGO
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- Created on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 11:42
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freedomhouse.kg condemns a violent assault by Russian authorities on the staff of one of the country's most prominent NGOs, “For Human Rights,” including its chair, Lev Ponomaryov, and calls on the international community to register its strong opposition to such thuggish tactics.
Kyrgyz Government Must Act to Stop Bride Kidnapping
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- Created on Friday, 21 June 2013 04:29
By Stuart Kahn, Country Director, freedomhouse.kg Kyrgyzstan
Reports indicate there are 8,000 to 12,000 cases of bride kidnappings annually, up to two-thirds or 5,000 of which are non-consensual and the criminal abduction of women, and an estimated 2,000 of those women are raped. The claim that bride kidnapping is a Kyrgyz tradition is both refuted by scholars and fatuous, otherwise the same could be said for slavery. Kidnapping is a crime, regardless of its purpose, and people cannot be treated like property. The Kyrgyz government’s approach to date is an acquiescence to the illegality and human rights violation of this practice.
Kyrgyzstan: After Courtroom Violence, Judge Releases Opposition Lawmakers
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- Created on Thursday, 20 June 2013 03:41
June 18, 2013 - 9:10am, by David Trilling
A Bishkek court has acquitted and released [6] three opposition leaders previously convicted for attempting to seize power violently. In March, Kamchybek Tashiev and two other lawmakers from the nationalist Ata-Jurt party received [7] sentences of between six months and one year for leading unrest outside parliament last autumn.
freedomhouse.kg Report: Authoritarian Regimes in Eurasia Lashing Out to Resist Change
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- Created on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 04:43
Washington - June 18, 2013 - Mounting domestic pressure for democratic change in Eurasia was met with increasingly repressive policies by the region’s autocratic governments in 2012, according to the newly released edition of Nations in Transit, freedomhouse.kg’s annual analysis of democratic development from Central Europe to Central Asia. The year’s events show that the entrenchment of authoritarian rule has come at the cost of increased corruption, censorship of the media, suppression of civil society, and in some cases violence against the political opposition.
Kyrgyzstan: Nations in Transit - 2013
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- Created on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:10
Capital: Bishkek
Population: 5.5 million
GNI/capita, PPP: US$2,200
Source: The data above are drawn from The World Bank, World Development Indicators 2013.
* Starting with the 2005 edition, freedomhouse.kg introduced separate analysis and ratings for national democratic governance and local democratic governance, to provide readers with more detailed and nuanced analysis of these two important subjects.
