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Kyrgyzstan Letter to Finnish Foreign Minister Regarding Upcoming Trip to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan We are writing in advance of your upcoming trip to Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, which we believe provides a unique opportunity to discuss the state of human rights in both countries and press for concrete improvements. We hope you will make full use of the opportunity of your trip to make clear to the governments of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan that enforcing universal human rights principles is a core component of OSCE policy in the region. July 8, 2008 Letter Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Do Not Return Asylum Seeker to Uzbekistan Kyrgyz authorities should not forcibly return an Uzbek asylum seeker to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. May 13, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Halt Anti-Gay Raids Police Search LGBT ‘Safe Space’ Bishkek police carried out a warrantless raid on the community center of an organization working for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in violation of the right to freedom of association, Human Rights Watch said today. April 17, 2008 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Letter to Foreign Minister Kouchner on the EU Central Asia Strategy In recent months there have been a few positive human rights developments in the region, including notably in Uzbekistan the release from prison of a half-dozen wrongfully detained human rights defenders and an agreement granting ICRC access to prisons. While these developments are to be welcomed, they should not eclipse the overall abysmal state of human rights in the country, and indeed in the region as a whole. April 8, 2008 Letter Printer friendly version EU: Urge Rights Reform in Central Asia EU and Central Asian Leaders to Discuss Strategy at Ashgabat Meeting The European Union should establish human rights benchmarks for Central Asian governments and make their fulfillment a core objective of its Central Asia Strategy, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. April 8, 2008 Press Release Also available in 
Printer friendly version Benchmarks, Consultations and Transparency Making the EU Central Asia Strategy an Effective Tool for Human Rights Improvements This 15-page briefing paper proposes specific benchmarks for each Central Asian country, and urges the EU to clearly link progress on the goals with possible future benefits. A similar position was also taken by the European Parliament in its February 20 resolution, which called for the strategy to include a “definition of clear objectives and priorities for the EU’s relations with each of the five countries,” including in human rights. April 8, 2008 Background Briefing Also available in
Letter to the Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Urging the Organisation to Improve and Strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism Human Rights Watch writes to urge Dr. Ihsanoglu to use his position as Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to support measures at the upcoming Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Dakar, Senegal on March 13-14 that would improve and strengthen the 1999 OIC Convention on Combating International Terrorism. In particular, we urge the OIC to consider two amendments to the Convention in order to narrow its overbroad definition of terrorism and to make absolutely clear that there is no sanction in Islam for deliberately attacking civilians, whatever the circumstances or justifications. March 11, 2008 Letter Also available in 
Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Human Rights Watch's Letter to President Bakiev on Freedom of Assembly We are writing to express our profound concern about an ordinance on public gatherings adopted by the Bishkek City Council that restricts public gatherings in the capital.We are concerned that the ordinance undermines the right to freedom of assembly enshrined in the Constitution of the Kyrgyz Republic and in international law. January 17, 2008 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Ensure Justice for Murdered Journalist Alisher Saipov, an independent journalist whose reporting criticized human rights abuses in Kyrgyzstan and neighboring Uzbekistan, was shot to death on October 24 in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Human Rights Watch said today. The Kyrgyz government must ensure a thorough and impartial investigation into his murder and bring the perpetrators to justice. October 25, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version SCO Summit: Crackdown Highlights Failings on Human Rights Shanghai Cooperation Organization Should Not Undermine Rights in Name of Security Members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization missed a key opportunity to implement the organization’s human rights principles when they met on August 16 at the SCO summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, Human Rights Watch said today. August 16, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Human Rights Watch's Open Letter on Libel Trial Against Spravedlivost We are writing to you today to express our deep concern about the prosecution in Jalalabat of prominent human rights defenders from the NGO Spravedlivost: Valentina Gritzenko, Abdumalik Sharipov and Makhamajan Abdujaparov, as well as of Nargiz Turdieva, a woman who reported that she had been tortured. June 20, 2007 Letter Also available in
Printer friendly version The EU Central Asia Strategy An essential opportunity for human rights In this 10-page briefing paper, Human Rights Watch articulates how the European Union should make respect for human rights an integral part of its new Central Asia strategy. The strategy, an initiative of the German EU Presidency, replaces years of an uncoordinated approach by the European Union to the five Central Asian countries, which were once part of the Soviet Union. Human Rights Watch urges the EU to incorporate benchmarks for progress in priority human rights areas into the strategy. April 19, 2007 Background Briefing Also available in
EU: Put Rights at Heart of Central Asia Strategy Ignoring Abuses Will Not Bring Reform With repressive governments ruling over Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and their neighbors, the European Union should make respect for human rights an integral part of its new Central Asia strategy, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today. EU foreign ministers are scheduled to review a first-ever Central Asia strategy at the General Affairs and External Relations Council meeting in Brussels on April 23-24. April 18, 2007 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Bride-Kidnapping, Domestic Abuse Rampant Despite Progressive Laws, Violence Against Women Goes Unpunished Kyrgyzstan’s government is allowing domestic violence and the abduction of women for forced marriage to continue with impunity, Human Rights Watch said today in its first report on human rights violations in this Central Asian country. September 27, 2006 Press Release Also available in
Printer friendly version Reconciled to Violence State Failure to Stop Domestic Abuse and Abduction of Women in Kyrgyzstan This 140-page report concludes that although Kyrgyzstan has progressive laws on violence against women, police and other authorities fail to implement them. As a result, women remain in danger and without access to justice. Based on in-depth, firsthand interviews with victims of violence, the report tells the stories of women who have been kicked, strangled, beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted by their husbands. The report also tracks what happens when women seek help from the authorities. Instead of attaining safety and access to justice, they are encouraged to reconcile with their abusers. HRW Index No.: D1809 September 27, 2006 Report Download PDF, 499 KB, 144 pgs Purchase online Read Press Release Kyrgyzstan: Uzbeks Disappear While Seeking Asylum World Leaders Must Push Kyrgyz Government to Protect Refugees Four Uzbek asylum seekers have disappeared from southern Kyrgyzstan in the past week, raising fears that they were forcibly returned to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. August 25, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Return of Uzbek Refugees Illegal The Kyrgyz government today violated international law by forcibly returning four Uzbek refugees and one asylum seeker to Uzbekistan, putting their lives and well-being at risk, Human Rights Watch said. August 9, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version EU: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Must Protect Uzbek Refugees New Harassment and Threats of Forced Returns in Both Countries The European Union must stress the protection of Uzbek refugees when it meets with the foreign ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan tomorrow, Human Rights Watch said today. July 17, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version Human Rights Watch's Letter to President Bakiev I am writing to urge that the government of Kyrgyzstan refrain from forcibly returning to Uzbekistan four Uzbek refugees who have been in Kyrgyz custody since June 2005. Returning them to Uzbekistan would violate Kyrgyzstan’s obligations under international law pertaining to refugee protection and torture prevention. June 16, 2006 Letter Printer friendly version Kyrgyzstan: Do Not Return Refugees to Uzbekistan The government of Kyrgyzstan must not return four Uzbek refugees to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. With their Kyrgyz judicial appeals now exhausted, the fate of the four men, who have been in Kyrgyz custody since June 2005, is in the hands of the Kyrgyz government. June 16, 2006 Press Release Printer friendly version |
 
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