Photo: Deaf Muslim women at a local mosque in Tashkent greeting each other This working paper resulted from my doctoral research fieldwork conducted in Tashkent in 2018-2019. It now seems to me that I would never think about the relationship between disability and religious inequality if...
Illustration by Eldos Fazylbekov / Gazeta.uz Today is the International Day of Sign Languages! What is the status of sign language in Uzbekistan and how are the rights of deaf people to access information realised? Together with a deaf rights activist Mamur Akhliddinov, we tried to...
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...
Today starts the International Week of the Deaf 2020 (IWD). It is celebrated around the world every year during the last full week of September. The theme of this year is “Reaffirming Deaf People’s Human Rights”. I decided to post the English translations of all...
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...
Photo: TEDxYouth@TKA I am sharing an interview published at "Another Day" Telegram channel: [caption id="attachment_15904" align="alignleft" width="500"] Source: TEDxYouth@TKA[/caption] When I first heard Bobobek Halilov speaking at TEDxYouth@TKA in a video, I thought I encountered a technical glitch, because I have never heard a person who learned lip...