Illustration: Eldos Fazylbekov / Gazeta.uz Despite some positive changes in the development of civil society in Uzbekistan, registration of public organisations is still an extremely frustrating process. I have analysed the recent case of an initiative group of young volunteers in Tashkent, who have already received...
My article is published in 'Spotlight on Uzbekistan' report edited by Adam Hug at The Foreign Policy Centre. In the piece, I examined the challenges that grassroots activists and self-initiative NGOs are still facing in Uzbekistan despite the strong political will of President Mirziyoyev to strengthen the role of civil society in the...
Exactly two years ago, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited the Culture Centre for the Deaf (the official name of the organisation is the Culture Centre of the Deaf-Mute) of the Society of the Deaf of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and instructed to improve the living conditions of...
- Would you like to see handicapped people depicted as people? - Excuse me? I have finally watched this great documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020) about Camp Jened - a summer camp for disabled teenagers in the state of New York established in 1951 which...
Photo by Evgeniya Grande titled 'Precipice'. 'This is the building of the Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan, and this is a person in need of social protection. There is a gap between them ...
Illustration by Eldos Fazylbekov / “Gazeta.uz” Can we talk about the social partnership between NGOs and the state in Uzbekistan? Does strict control impede the development of civic initiatives? Together with Oybek Isakov, chairperson of the Association of Disabled People's Organisations (an umbrella cross-disability organisation uniting...
Yesterday, we were glad to know about the registration of the first human rights NGO in Uzbekistan since 2003 and the return of Mercy Corps to the country. And today I am reading about anger and frustration of charitable organisations on Facebook. Natalia Kondratova wrote...
Illustration by Eldos Fazylbekov / “Gazeta.uz” (The multiple stamps in green "Otkazano" in Russian mean "Refused"). On 27 January together with Oybek Isakov the chairperson of the Association of Disabled People of Uzbekistan (un umbrella cross-disability organisation uniting 26 NGOs run for and by disabled people)...