This year, the 14th session of the UN Forum on Minority Issues was devoted to preventing conflicts on ethnic and religious grounds. The causes and background of such incidents are the accumulated dissatisfaction of various groups of the population with…
Theme: minorities’ rights
The UN CERD criticizes the authorities of Uzbekistan for ignoring the problems of ethnic minorities
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination assessed Uzbekistan’s implementation of the priority recommendations given in December, 2019 during the last review of the state report on compliance with the Convention. The Committee found unsatisfactory the response of…
The decision issued by the court of appeals shocked Kazakhstan’s Dungan community: four pogromists who participated in arson and looting were released from the courtroom (members of the Dungan community said that no compensation was ordered for the tremendous damages…
Minority Rights Group International issued a report on the impact of COVID19 on the world’s most marginalised communities “Minority and Indigenous. Trends 2021. Lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic“ Tolekan Ismailova for the Minority Rights Group International: While the pandemic has…
On April 27, 2021 the court in Taraz, Southern Kazakhstan, announced its final verdict in the case concerning anti-Dungan pogroms, which had occurred in February 2020. The longest terms of imprisonment (15-20 years) were received by the attackers, whose actions…
Tomorrow, on April 27, 2021, the final stage of the trial in the high-profile case concerning anti-Dungan pogroms that took place more than a year ago, on February 7-8, 2020, will begin in Taraz, Kazakhstan. Announcing the final verdict will…