Search for: "Tajikistan"
Results 181 - 200
of 346
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
23 May 2016, 5:09 am
Deutsche Welle reports that voters in Tajikistan yesterday overwhelmingly (94.5% in favor) approved a series of constitutional amendments. [read post]
20 May 2016, 8:56 am
The project, named for the participating countries (Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan), is part of a project funded by the Asian Development Bank to link existing electricity infrastructure and expand access to power in Afghanistan by delivering electricity from Tajikistan to ten Afghan provinces. [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:51 am
(In fact on April 14, the State Department did add Tajikistan. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 4:10 am
These countries are Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and for the first time Tajikistan as a Country of Particular Concern. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 2:00 pm
Gender-Based Asylum and US Immigration Politics (LSE Review of Books Blog, Feb. 2016) [text]*Breaking Barriers: Challenges to Implementing Laws on Violence Against Women in Afghanistan and Tajikistan with Special Consideration of Displaced Women (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, 2016) [text]"Comprehensive Development and Testing of the ASIST-GBV, a Screening Tool for Responding to Gender-based Violence among Women in Humanitarian Settings," Conflict and Health, 10:7… [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 12:04 pm
Reuters writes that “fighting broke out on Thursday in six districts in Kunduz province, a crucial northern stronghold close to the Tajikistan border, as well as around the provincial capital, with Afghan security forces battling militants through the night. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 5:29 am
(Update: Azerbaijan lost its claim to fame when Tajikistan erected an even taller flagpole in 2011.) [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 11:19 am
The Constitutional Court of Tajikistan [official website] has affirmed the legality of a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Tajikistan [text] that would allow the possibility of current President Emomali Rahmon [BBC profile] remaining president for life. [read post]
12 Jan 2016, 6:55 am
Somewhat different approaches are described in the reports on anti-extremism legislation and law enforcement in Russia and Tajikistan. [read post]
2 Jan 2016, 7:20 am
Visitors came from many of China’s neighbors (and all parts of greater China), including: Macau, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, South Korea, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Russia, Tajikistan. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 12:00 am
With government leaders from Russia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan – among others – in attendance, the purported goal of the conference is to promote “an interconnected world shared and governed by all. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 7:00 am
This report analyzes anti-extremist legislation and other legal provisions on fighting extremism in China, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 11:02 am
Secretary of State John Kerry sought today to reassure Afghanistan’s Central Asian neighbors, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, that the United States would remain committed to the security and prosperity of the region even after the country’s drawdown of forces in the region. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 4:15 am
In anticipation of his arrival in Tajikistan today, the U.S. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 11:20 am
Just last year, PhD researcher Alexander Sodiqov was arrested and held for a month by security services in Tajikistan on suspicion of espionage for conducting interviews with Tajik civil society leaders in the city of Khorog on the Afghan border. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 10:11 am
Tajikistan’s former security chief has now reappeared repeatedly in ISIS propaganda videos. [read post]
1 May 2015, 11:11 am
The advances by the militants, reportedly mostly from Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and the Caucuses, indicate that ISIS has spread its reach beyond the Middle East and North Africa. [read post]
1 May 2015, 5:10 am
This includes concrete steps to: strengthen or establish partnerships with different stakeholders and processes, and utilize already existing policy instruments and tools;enhance the understanding and use of economic arguments to support action on environment and health; and harmonize with the forthcoming post-2015 sustainable development agenda.They also agreed to address the environment and health challenges of the 21st century posed by: complex risk factors: air, water, waste or… [read post]
1 May 2015, 4:05 am
It also recommends adding 8 other countries to the list: Central African Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, and Viet Nam.USCIRF placed 10 countries on its Tier 2 list, countries that engage in or tolerate violations, but which do not reach CPC levels: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Russia and Turkey.The Introduction to this year's report highlights massacres by ISIL and Boko Haram, as well as violence in the… [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 11:44 pm
As of April 2015, the countries within these regions that retain the death penalty as a criminal punishment in law consist of the following:Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, China (PRC), China (Taiwan), India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea (DPRK), Korea (ROK), Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam,… [read post]
