August 2013 ойлик архив
Statement of the Women’s coalition to protect the rights of labor migrants in Russia
We the undersigned, representing the civil society of Uzbekistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, express our deep concern over the recent actions of the Russian authorities towards migrant workers from Central Asia.
In recent weeks the following actions have been reported: raids targeting people of foreign appearance in Moscow, which have seen more than one thousand people arrested; the creation of a supposedly temporary camp in Golyanovo for these detained migrants; and an announcement by the Federal Migration Service on a plan to set up 83 such camps for illegal migrants.
“Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward”
The Secretary-GenerAL message on international Youth Day.
This year’s observance of International Youth Day focuses on the issue of youth migration. Of the annual total of some 214 million international migrants, young people constitute more than 10 per cent, yet too little is known about their struggles and experiences.
Communication to the Committee Against Torture
FREEDOM NOW – COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMITTEE
AGAINST TORTURE FOR THE EXAMINATION OF
UZBEKISTAN’S FOURTH PERIODIC REVIEW
August 12, 2013
I. Introduction
Freedom Now submits this report to assist the Committee Against Torture (the ―Committee‖) in its review of Uzbekistan‘s record of compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (―CAT‖ or the ―Convention‖, during its fourth periodic review of the country. Freedom Now is a non-governmental organization (―NGO‖) based in Washington, D.C., that seeks to free prisoners of conscience through focused legal, political and public relations advocacy efforts.1 Since 2008, Freedom Now has worked on cases of arbitrary detention in Uzbekistan.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva: Hostages of big politics
To: Mr.Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;
Ms.Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights;
Mr.Konstantin Romodanovskiy, Head of the Federal Migration Service;
Mr.Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation;
Mr.Ziyadulla Pulathodzhaev, Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Russian Federation;
Human rights organizations and the media.
Dear Sirs,
The entire world community has witnessed the incident, which happened on July 27, 2013, near the market Matveevskiy in Moscow, when a Russian citizen Magomed Rasulov with his relatives and friends obstructed law enforcement officers of the capital city when taking operational measures to arrest the alleged offender (video of the incident can been found here –www.youtube.com / watch? feature = player_embedded & v = pi11DGmh6dk).
After this incident, one of the field officers of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Captain Anton Kudryashov, was hospitalized with a head injury.
Vitaly Ponomarev: Kidnappings of refugees must be investigated and the perpetrators punished
Two Uzbek refugeeswent missing in the territory of Kirov district of Makhachkalaon July 13, 2013.
Missing refugees – 23-year-old Alisher Fazilov and his brother, 30-year-old Zhasurbek Fazilov – are natives of Kashkadarya region, Uzbekistan. They have been living in the territory of Dagestan.
According to their relatives, who spoke tohuman rights center “Memorial”, the brothers left their home at around 10 am and went to Leninkent village on the outskirts of Makhachkala, where they were supposed to fix the roof of a newly built house.
Join the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus 4 August 2013
Чалавек можа ўсё. Межаў яго сіле няма, калі наперадзе агонь надзеі.
Гэта вельмі добра ведаюць гуманісты, фанатыкі і закаханыя.
A human being is capable of anything.
There are no limits to his force, if led by the light of hope.
This is very well-known to humanists, fanatics and lovers.
Uladzimir Karatkevich, Belarusian writer
