Illustration by David Werner, 1998, "Nothing About Us Without Us: Developing Innovative Technologies For, By and With Disabled Persons". Does the recently established Interagency Council on the Affairs of Persons with Disabilities represent the rights and interests of people with disabilities and their organisations? Together with...
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...
Last time I mentioned that the Deputy Minister of Public Education, Mr Usman Sharifkhodjaev, invited me to become a member of the Public Council under the Ministry. On 23 March, I finally received a letter of invitation from the MPE to become a member of...
Photo: a self-initiative group Youth Volunteer Center "Oltin Qanot" (Golden Wing) who already received 20 rejections to register their NGO in Tashkent city. Author: San'atbek Muzaffarov On February 15, the Minister of Justice Ruslanbek Davletov spoke with the local media representatives about the Ministry's activities in...
Photo: Madina Pulatova, a disabled girl who managed to study at a mainstream school On February 8, 2021, the Nationwide Movement "Yuksalish," together with partners, organised a national festival of Uzbek civil activists "Faol Fuqarolar", and a public discussion on "The role of the non-government non-commercial...
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 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...