Photo: Our inclusive team at disabled people's organisation NGO "Sharoit Plus" It is already more than a month since we organised the first-ever Inclusive Business Forum in Tashkent on 23 November 2021. The idea of holding such a forum came out of our project www.ishplus.uz (Job...
Illustration: UzA Today, on 22 December 2021, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev adopted a new decree "On additional measures to provide comprehensive support to persons with disabilities, to promote their employment and further increase their social activity." Below I provide a brief summary of the document. More incentives for...
Photo: "Balance" film cover The other day I watched a documentary film by a novice documentary filmmaker from Tashkent Ilkhom Ikramov. The author of the idea and director Ikramov wrote that the film "Balance" is 'a documentary about overcoming difficulties, acceptance, and dreams.' Surayyo Mukhamedova, a woman...
Back in July 2021, Sophie Ibbotson, Uzbekistan's Tourism Ambassador to the UK, invited me to contribute to the forthcoming OCA Magazine issue on UK-Uzbekistan bilateral relations and write about why social inclusion and accessibility in the arts and culture is so important. The article was published in...
Illustration: Eldos Fazylbekov / Gazeta.uz The involvement of blind and visually impaired teachers in the education system is necessary for the promotion of inclusion in this field of Uzbekistan. But have equal conditions and opportunities been created for them to carry out teaching activities like teachers without...
Photo: Abdulaziz Salimov, a blind Mathematics student at the National University of Uzbekistan, by Konstantin Bashlaev How are disability-inclusive employment and innovations interconnected? Why is inclusivity in the field of information and communication technologies of practical importance for persons with disabilities and society and business in...
Illustration by Eldos Fazylbekov / “Gazeta.uz” Disabled people are facing various forms of discrimination in the labor market of Uzbekistan. Why laws and policies to ensure them with decent job opportunities are not working? My op-ed for Gazeta.uz. Today, December 3, is the International Day of Persons...