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...
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...
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...
Illustration: Eldos Fazylbekov I wrote this article a year ago when it was published in Russian at Gazeta.uz on 7 January 2019. Unfortunately, I have not seen any response from the Uzbek government and relevant state agencies to provide support for deafblind people. During the pandemic...
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...
Photo source: Press-service of the Ministry of Healthcare of Uzbekistan (No sign-language interpreters) My friend Mamur Akhlidinov is a deaf blogger and author of Uzbekistan Deaf Society Blog and also a first year student at the University of Journalism and Mass Communications in Tashkent. Yesterday he wrote...