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Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book UZBEKISTAN Nowhere to Turn Torture and Ill-treatmet in Uzbekistan written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2007 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeannette Goehring
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780932088635
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Nations in Transit 2008 written by Jeannette Goehring and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1995, the Nations in Transit series has monitored the status of democratic change from Central Europe to Eurasia and pinpointed for policymakers, researchers, journalists, and democracy advocates alike the greatest reform challenges and reform opportunities facing the countries and territories that make up this vast geographic space. Covering 29 countries and administrative areas, Nations in Transit 2008 evalutes a 12-month period, from January 1 to December 31, 2007, and provides comparative ratings and in-depth analysis of electoral processes, civil society, independent media, national democratic governance, local democratic governance, judicial framework & independence, and corruption. Freedom House--which for more than a quarter century has rated global political rights and civil liberties in its benchmark Freedom in the World surveys--has developed a ratings system that allows for comparative analysis of reforms. Nations in Transit findings have drawn important linkages between democratic accountability, good governance, and the rule of law. In doing so it has made clear the essential nature of all these elements to the development of stable, free, and prosperous societies. The results are incisive, authoritative, and comprehensive.
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Publisher : Human Rights Watch
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Total Pages : 583 pages
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Download or read book Human Rights Watch World Report, 1999 written by and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1998 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Human Rights Watch
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1583229515
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)
Download or read book World Report 2008 written by Human Rights Watch and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Rights Watch is increasingly recognized as the world’s leader in building a stronger awareness for human rights. Their annual World Report is the most probing review of human rights developments available anywhere. Written in straightforward, non-technical language, Human Rights Watch World Report prioritizes events in the most affected countries during the previous year. The backbone of the report consists of a series of concise overviews of the most pressing human rights issues in countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, with particular focus on the role—positive or negative—played in each country by key domestic and international figures. Highly anticipated and widely publicized by the U.S. and international press every year, the World Report is an invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and all citizens of the world.
Author : Svetlana Peshkova
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653050
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Women, Islam, and Identity written by Svetlana Peshkova and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim women leaders have staked out a vibrant space in which they counsel and assist the women in their specific religious needs. Peshkova finds that otinchalar’s religious leadership filters into other areas of society, producing social changes beyond the ritual realm and challenging stereotypical definitions of what it means to be a Muslim woman. Weaving together the stories of individuals’ daily lives with her own journey to and from post-Soviet Central Asia, Peshkova provides a rich analysis of identity formation in Uzbekistan. She presents readers with a nuanced portrait of religion and social change that starts with an individual informed but not determined by the sociohistoric context of the region.
Author : Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457936
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Contesting Feminisms written by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creates a new space for hybrid feminist analysis of Asian Muslim womens lives. Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors highlight the fact that secularism has provided the space for some women to reclaim their religious identity and their own feminisms. Through compelling case studies and theoretical discussions, this volume challenges mainstream Western and national feminisms that presume homogeneity of Muslim womens lives to provide a deeper understanding of the multiple realities of feminism in Muslim communities. Contesting Feminisms attempts to offer nuanced understandings of Muslim womens struggles that are firmly rooted in close attention to local social, economic, and historical contexts with an eye to opening up theoretical spaces in which to examine local and transnational feminist Muslim activism. As such, the volume offers rich insights into womens lives and struggles in moving away from the reductionist frame of a strictly Quranic view of women that is mobilized by both Western detractors and Islamic normativizers to constrain womens agency, and instead brings into view the heterogeneity of Muslim womens lives and struggles. Zayn Kassam, editor of Women and Islam
Author : Felix Wilfred
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199329060
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christianity in Asia written by Felix Wilfred and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission Studies Despite the ongoing global expansion of Christianity, there remains a lack of comprehensive scholarship on its development in Asia. This volume fills the gap by exploring the world of Asian Christianity and its manifold expressions, including worship, theology, spirituality, inter-religious relations, interventions in society, and mission. The contributors, from over twenty countries, deconstruct many of the widespread misconceptions and interpretations of Christianity in Asia. They analyze how the growth of Christian beliefs throughout the continent is linked with the socio-political and cultural processes of colonization, decolonization, modernization, democratization, identity construction of social groups, and various social movements. With a particular focus on inter-religious encounters and emerging theological and spiritual paradigms, the volume provides alternative frames for understanding the phenomenon of conversion and studies how the scriptures of other religious traditions are used in the practice of Christianity within Asia.
Author : Bjørn Møller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317139364
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book European Security written by Bjørn Møller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe has undergone quite profound changes since the end of the Cold War. Having been a highly militarised, conflict-ridden and war-ridden region, the core of Europe today constitutes a security community where armed conflicts among the constituent states has become inconceivable. This comprehensive book offers a theoretically founded and thoroughly documented analysis of European security, with a special emphasis on the role played by the United Nations and the various regional and sub-regional organisations, especially the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the European Union. When it comes to explaining peace in Europe opinions differ widely. Some argue that it was only because the West refused to give in to Soviet threats that the latter eventually gave up; or that the 'long peace' in Europe was due to the combination of a bipolar alliance structure, pitting the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) against the Warsaw Pact, with the presence of nuclear weapons on both sides. Others point instead to the extraordinarily dense network of international institutions and organisations in Europe, offering a wide panoply of fora in which to handle disputes peacefully; or to the web of interdependence in economic and other affairs, tying together all states in Europe in relations which militate strongly against war. Still others believe that the external peace between the states in Europe is simply a reflection of a convergence of cultures, democracies with marked economies that are open towards the world market. These questions are the focal point of this book, which concentrates on security, albeit not in the sense of being a treatise on military matters, but security obtainable by much more indirect and non-military means. It will be required reading for all students and scholars of European security and the organisations which underpin it.
Author : Andrea Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nowhere to Turn written by Andrea Berg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology -- Background -- UN engagement and some steps forward -- The scope of torture. -- Pre-trial detention -- Isolation and violation of detention procedures -- Restrictions on the right to a lawyer of one's choice -- Failure of pre-trial safeguards and complaints mechanisms -- Harassment of lawyers -- Torture in pre-trial detention facilities -- Prolonged beatings -- Electric shock -- Asphyxiation -- Torture by inmates -- Psychological pressure, threats and inhuman treatment -- Physical conditions in custody. -- Trial -- Judges' indifference to torture allegations and coerced testimony -- Police intimidation during trial -- Restrictions for trial monitors. -- Monitoring post-conviction detention -- Breaking newcomers in post-conviction prisons. -- Accountability for torturers. -- Recommendations -- To the government of Uzbekistan -- To the United Nations -- To other stakeholders and governments. -- Acknowledgements. -- Appendix I.A note on the case of Andrei Shelkovenko -- Appendix II. Letter to the office of the ombudsman of Uzbekistan -- Appendix III. Reply from the office of the ombudsman -- Appendix IV. Letter to Prosecutor General of Uzbekistan -- Appendix V. Reply from Prosecutor General's Office.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steve Swerdlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564328397
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (283 download)
Download or read book "No One Left to Witness" written by Steve Swerdlow and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Uzbekistan has become synonymous in recent years with an abysmal rights record and a torture epidemic that plagues its police stations and prisons. United Nations bodies determined in 2003 that torture was "systematic" and "widespread" in Uzbekistan's criminal justice system--a crisis that only deepened after the Uzbek government killed hundreds of protesters in the eastern city of Andijan in May 2005. In 2008, the Uzbek government introduced the right of habeas corpus, or the judicial review of detention, followed by other procedural reforms, to its system of pre-trial detention. Such measures should have heralded a more positive era for Uzbekistan. They did not. Despite improvements on paper, and the government's claims that it is committed to fighting torture, depressingly little has changed since habeas corpus was adopted. There is no evidence the Uzbek government is committed to implementing the laws it has passed or to ending torture in practice. Indeed, in several respects, the situation has deteriorated. The government has dismantled the independent legal profession, disbarring lawyers who dare to take on torture cases. Persecution of human rights activists has increased, credible reports of arbitrary detention and torture, including suspicious deaths in custody, have continued, and the government will not allow domestic and international NGOs to operate in the country. Uzbekistan's increasing strategic importance as a key supply route for NATO troops in Afghanistan has led the United States, European Union, and key actors to soften their criticism of its authoritarian government in recent years, allowing an already bleak situation to worsen. "No One Left to Witness": Torture, the Failure of Habeas Corpus, and the Silencing of Lawyers in Uzbekistan documents the cost of the West's increasingly complacent approach toward Uzbekistan and urges a fundamental shift in US and EU policy, making clear that concrete policy consequences, including targeted punitive measures, will follow absent concrete action to address serious human rights abuses."--P. [4] of cover.
Author : David W. Montgomery
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981971
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Practicing Islam written by David W. Montgomery and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in both the individual and the community. To Montgomery, religious practice and lived experience combine to create an ideological space that is shaped by events, opportunities, and potentialities that form the context from which knowing emerges. This acquired knowledge further frames social navigation and political negotiation. Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as "good" within their communities and under Islam. Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
Author : Scott Newton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509909478
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Constitutional Systems of the Independent Central Asian States written by Scott Newton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes the first comparative constitutional analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic and Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in their cultural, historical, political, economic and social context. The first chapter provides a general overview of the diverse and dynamic constitutional landscape across the region. A second chapter examines the Soviet constitutional system in depth as the womb of the Central Asian States. A third chapter completes the general picture by examining the constitutional influences of the 'new world order' of globalisation, neoliberalism, and good governance into which the five states were thrust. The remaining five chapters look in turn at the constitutional context of presidents and governments, parliaments and elections, courts and rights, society and economy and culture and identity. The enquiry probes the regional patterns of neo-Sovietism, plebiscitary elections, weak courts and parliaments, crony capitalism, and constraints on association, as well as the counter-tendencies that strengthen democracy, rights protection and pluralism. It reveals the Central Asian experience to be emblematic of the principal issues and tensions facing contemporary constitutional systems everywhere.
Author : Steve Swerdlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book "You Can't See Them, But They're Always There" written by Steve Swerdlow and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report examines the situation for journalists, media outlets, and the exercise of free speech since Mirziyoyev assumed the presidency in September 2016. Human Rights Watch found that despite positive moves such as easing certain restrictions on free expression, censorship remains a potent force and the authorities selectively prosecute journalists, writers, and ordinary citizens expressing critical views."--Publisher website, viewed April 16, 2018.
Author : Daniel L. Burghart
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498572677
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty written by Daniel L. Burghart and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China, Iran, and each other. This volume covers a wide range of issues and presents the work of emerging scholars authors well-known for their expertise in the region. The first part addresses social issues. Covering a wide range from HIV/AIDs to social media, the rebirth of Islam, outmigration, and problematic borders, this section follows two main currents: political development in the region and states’ responses to transboundary challenges. The second part, addressing economics and security, provides analyses of new infrastructure, informal economies (from bazaars to criminal networks), energy development, the role of enclaves in the Ferghana Valley, and the development of the states’ military structures. This section illuminates the interactions between economic developments and security, and the forces that could undermine both. The final part, comprised of five case studies, offers a “deeper dive” into a specific factor that matters in the development of each Central Asian state. These cases include Kazakhstan’s foreign policy identity, Kyrgyzstan’s domestic politics, Tajikistan’s pursuit of hydropower, foreign direct investment in Turkmenistan, and the perception of everyday corruption in Uzbekistan.
Author : Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047429311
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book International Law and Power: Perspectives on Legal Order and Justice written by Kaiyan Homi Kaikobad and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-10-23 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undoubtedly one of the paragons of public international law in contemporary times, Colin Warbrick is truly held in high esteem by his peers at home and abroad. His breadth of knowledge is reflected in a large number of scholarly works and in his appointment as a Specialist Adviser to the Select Committee on the Constitution of the House of Lords and as a consultant to both the Council of Europe and OSCE. This festschrift celebrates on his retirement as Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at Birmingham University, his extraordinary talent and academic career by bringing together a group of eminent judges, practitioners and academics to write on international human rights, international criminal justice and international order and security, fields in which Professor Warbrick has left an indelible mark.
Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Democratization and Human Rights in Uzbekistan written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
