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Petition against an offensive article in the newspaper Delo# in Kyrgyzstan

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:34 UTC

On February 9, 2012 a newspaper Delo# published an article "A gang of prostitutes."
This article is written in a vulgar and insulting tone. It stigmatizes and demeans the human dignity of homosexual people.

9 февраля 2012 года газета Дело№ опубликовала статью «Шайка проститутов».

Эта статья написана в вульгарном, оскорбительном тоне. Она стигматизирует и унижает человеческое достоинство гомосексуальных людей.

Demand that international aid to Kyrgyzstan be dispensed only to organizations that ensure human rights

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:50 UTC

Following the June 2010 ethnic violence between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, thousands of homes and businesses throughout the country, but particularly in the city of Osh were destroyed.

Predominantly, the affected houses were owned by ethnic Uzbeks. In response to the widespread destruction, the international donor community has pledged $1.1 billion to help Kyrgyzstan rebuild, with $350 million allotted for the rebuilding of homes in Jalal-Abad and Osh. However, Kyrgyzstan, and particular those officials linked with the former President Bakiyev (such as the current mayor of Osh, Myrzakmatov), has a poor track record with regard to the effective and appropriate use for international aid funds.

In particular, there is reason to believe that Mayor Myrzakmatov’s plans to rebuild amount to an ethnic cleansing of Uzbeks from the city of Osh. It is therefore unconscionable that international, and specifically U.S. funds be used to further Mayor Myrzakmatov’s nationalist plans. The United States’ government must insist that the aid funds be dispensed in accordance with both the principles enshrined in the U.S. constitution and international human rights standards.

Allow OSCE police monitors in Osh, Kyrgyzstan

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:38 UTC

In June 2010, ethnic violence erupted between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, particularly in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad. Although the original clashes are now over, the situation remains volatile as systematic violence against ethnic Uzbeks continues, particularly in Osh where the local police arbitrarily arrest and mistreat Uzbeks.

This is why the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has offered to dispatch an advisory police force to both Osh and Jalal-Abad that would help restore citizen trust in the police by ensuring that the police enforce the country's laws even-handedly, and in accordance with human rights standards.

Although the Kyrgyz President has agreed to invite the OSCE police advisors in the country, the Mayor of Osh has openly defied her orders by refusing to permit the OSCE police to come to Osh.

Be My Voice

Fri, 14 May 2010 02:36 UTC

In February of 2009, former Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, Igor Chudinov, placed a moratorium on all intercountry adoptions, citing fraud and abuses of the system by government officials, orphanages and adoption service providers. This official moratorium came nearly one year after Kyrgyz orphans had been matched with US and Canadian families who were awaiting court dates to complete the adoptions; court dates which should have been scheduled six to eight weeks from the time the families and children were matched.

During the moratorium, the government tasked itself with the investigation of all adoption cases and development of new laws and regulations for future adoptions. Sixteen months since the official moratorium was called, and more than two years since many of the children and families began to wait for court dates to complete the adoptions:

- Two of the matched children have died and one has suffered profound brain damage due to inadequate medical care;
- The investigations regarding fraud and abuse continue, despite the fact that all matched children have been vetted and declared legal orphans;
- The new laws and regulations, which were drafted shortly before the overthrow of former President Bakiev’s government in April, remain unsigned;
- Approximately 65 Kyrgyz children who have been matched with families abroad remain in Kyrgyz orphanages. Most of these children have medical and emotional issues that need urgent attention;
- Approximately 65 US and Canadian families remain committed to providing safe, loving, permanent families for these children.

The future of these children remains uncertain as Kyrgyzstan’s provisional government, in an effort to restore human rights and democracy in their country, focuses on the important work of restoring order, drafting a new constitution, and holding elections in the coming months.