Activist Called on UN to Assess Tajikistan Security Forces
Berlin (06/12 – 67.67) Asliddin Sherzamonov, an activist from Tajikistan, strongly believes that the United Nations (UN) should assess the actions of the Central...
Tajikistan Did Not Respond To UN Experts, Human Rights Issues
Berlin (25/11 – 90) Eight United Nations experts are awaiting a response from Tajik authorities to a letter expressing concern about the fate of...
Kazakhstan Co-Sponsors UN General Assembly Resolution on Religious Symbols
ASTANA – Kazakhstan has co-sponsored a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning the desecration of religious symbols along with 47 other UN member states,...
Tajikistan’s Attack on Religious Freedom: The Plight of the Pamiri Ismaili Community in the Mountains of Gorno-Bakakhshan
Copenhagen, Berlin (11/8 – 42) The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) highlighted severe restrictions imposed by the Tajikistani government on religious...
UN Special Rapporteur: Tajikistan Violated Its International Obligations
Geneva, London (29/7 – 50) Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, condemned the arrest and imprisonment of journalists,...
The entrance to the “centre of the earth” may disappear within decades
The glaciers that have given Iceland its name will be gone within two centuries and all but the biggest one by the end of...