Photo: Xalq So‘zi A state-run Uzbek newspaper Xalq So‘zi (People's Word) reports that on June 7, 2021, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signs the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan "On Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (New York,...
Illustration: Eldos Fazylbekov / Gazeta.uz Representatives of the Ministry of Justice of Uzbekistan and system-forming NGOs (GONGOs) report positive changes in the development of civil society. But is everything perfect, and are there any genuine improvements in the regulation of NGOs and civil society institutions in...
Photo: CABAR.asia On 4 March 2021, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, together with the Nationwide Movement "Yuksalish," organised a seminar on "Procedures for registration of NGOs at all levels". For about two hours, the Ministry representatives explained the procedures for registration of...
Photo: Gazeta. uz The Law “On the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” signed by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on 15 October 2020 has come into force today. The Law defines the basic principles of ensuring the rights of persons with disabilities in the Republic of Uzbekistan: ...
Photo: Disability rights activists after the roundtable on December 3, 2020, Author: Guljakhon Amanova "The words 'lockdown' and 'knockdown' became synonymous and severely hit children with learning disabilities," said one of the activists for the rights of persons with autism in Uzbekistan Farkhad Artykbaev at the...
Illustration: Eldos Fazylbekov / Gazeta.uz. On October 15, the president Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a new law "On the rights of persons with disabilities". What measures must be taken so that it does not repeat the fate of the previous law - "On social protection of disabled...
In early March before the COVID-19 lockdown in Uzbekistan, I wrote about how a deaf family in Tashkent region was being kicked out from their own house. Unfortunately, the family of five deaf people is still in the process of eviction and under risk of...
Photo: Shukhrat Latipov / Gazeta.uz I learned about Anisa Shamsutdinova through her non-profit social-informational project “Downside Sport" which is known not only in Uzbekistan but in Central Asia and post-Soviet space in general. Her project supports parents raising children with Down syndrome in Uzbekistan and supports...
Illustration by Eldos Fazylbekov / “Gazeta.uz” In September 2019 the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Diego García-Sayán visited Uzbekistan. The purpose of his visit was to evaluate the process of the justice system reform under the new leadership. While recognising...
Photograph: Tatyana Dovlatova A family of five deaf people is kicked out of their own house in Tashkent region wrote AsiaTerra yesterday on 8 March 2020. A resident of Zangiata district Tatyana Zhilkina, with a 2nd group of disability since childhood, who is being evicted from...