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President's Remarks On Women And Mosques Draw Sharp Reactions
November 11, 2004 - (Radio Free Europe) Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov has backed an edict from the country's Muslim spiritual council that bans women from attending mosque. In an address to the nation on 6 November, Rakhmonov laid out his arguments for supporting the ban, but not everyone is certain of his motives.

New hope for children of HIV-infected mothers
November 9, 2004 - (IRIN) Twenty seven-year-old Shakhlo (not her real name) was not happy to find out that she was pregnant. She couldn't face having a baby. "What fate can a child of an HIV-infected woman face?!" she asked herself. The young woman had an abortion during the first month of pregnancy.

Top Islamic Body Bans Women From Attending Mosque Services
October 20, 2004 – (Radio Free Europe) Tajikistan is often considered the most liberal of the Central Asian states when it comes to matters of Islamic tradition. But that might be changing. A recent decision by the country's top Islamic body forbids women from going to mosques -- a practice the group says promotes "seduction and mixing" between the sexes. The ruling has upset many Muslims who say the decision violates both Islamic tradition and the Tajik Constitution

WOMEN LEFT TO STRUGGLE ALONE
July 16, 2004 - (IWPR) Life is not easy for anyone in one of the poorest Tajik provinces of Hatlon, bordering Afghanistan. But as growing numbers of men leave to work on building sites in Moscow or Yekaterinburg, the women they leave behind face even greater hardship.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN ISLAM
June 2004 – (OSCE website) Along the bumpy roads of Tajikistan’s northern Sughd Province, sits the village Chilgasy, 90 minutes outside of Khujand. Chilgasy is one of the latest sites for the increasingly popular, OSCE-sponsored seminars on women’s rights in Islam. The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe's Field Office in Khujand is overseeing 30 seminars across the province.

UNHCR HELPS WOMEN TO HEAL THE WOUNDS OF WAR IN TAJIKISTAN
June 16, 2004 - (UNHCR) As refugees the world over discover, the end of civil war and the return home are just the first steps in the slow process of rebuilding shattered lives.

OSCE CENTRE HELPS WOMEN IN KURGHON-TEPPA ACQUIRE NEW SKILLS
May 20, 2004 - A centre for women, which will offer free psychological and legal consultations, information on human rights, and a number of training courses, opened this week in Kurghon-Teppa, Tajikistan.

TAJIKISTAN: GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION
May 20, 2004 – (IWPR) Saodat Qodirova has been in jail in the Tajik capital Dushanbe for over a month, without being charged. The reason? No one knows for sure, but many believe she was arrested because she had the temerity to write to the authorities about her husband and two brothers, convicted as Islamic radicals.

SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MINORS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
January 24, 2004 – (IWPR - Dushanbe) The lack of law enforcement was identified as a major problem in the fight against child prostitution by journalists, Central Asian officials and NGOs at a January 24 round table discussion on IWPR’s “Lost Children” report.

LOST CHILDREN OF CENTRAL ASIA
January 19, 2004 – (IWPR'S REPORTING CENTRAL ASIA) Child prostitutes may be virtually invisible in the Central Asia republics, but they are there if you look hard enough - in discreet clubs, private homes converted into brothels, and hanging around on street corners.


RIGHTS QUIZ IN WOMEN’S PRISON IN TAJIKISTAN
January 8, 2004 – (OSCE) A women's prison in Tajikistan was the unusual setting for a human rights quiz organized recently by the OSCE's Center in Dushanbe and its Kulyab field office, in co-operation with the prison administration and municipal authorities of Nurek, a city south of the capital.


2003

TAJIKISTAN IN DENIAL OVER SPIRALING SUICIDE RATE
July 18, 2003 – (IWPR) Desperate young women choose death by self-immolation to rebel against suicide taboo.

TAJIK MOTHERS SEEK SONS LOST IN WAR
June 3, 2003 – (IWPR'S REPORTING CENTRAL ASIA) Six years after the civil war ended, parents of missing soldiers continue to search for them.

DRAFT LAW ON GENDER EQUALITY DISCUSSED AT OSCE ROUNDABLE
March 10, 2003 – (OSCE) Participants in an OSCE roundtable in Dushanbe welcomed the initiative of the Tajik Government to draft a law on gender equality.

2002

TAJIK WOMEN WANT POLYGAMY LEGALISED
October 4, 2002 – (IWPR) Islam may approve of men having more than one wife, but the Tajik authorities are not prepared to legalise the practice.

TAKING STEPS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION OF WOMEN IN TAJIKISTAN
August 7, 2002 – (OSCE) Participants in a roundtable on equality between men and women in Tajikistan have stressed the need for accessible and fast mechanisms for enforcing legal provisions. The roundtable, organized on 5 August by the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan, in co-operation with the UN Office of Peace-Building to Tajikistan (UNTOP), focused on the compliance of Tajik legislation with the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).


DREAMING OF A COW
August 5, 2002 – (IRIN - Dushanbe) In poor communities a little help can go a long way. When US Congressmen and women recently visited two women's credit groups in the semi-rural Leninskii district outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, the women were asked what kind of help was most needed. Several responded "It's our dream to own a cow!"


OSU TAJIKISTAN WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP PROGRAM GOES TO CENTRAL ASIA
June 26, 2002 – (Oregon State University) This June, five Corvallis women are traveling to Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, to conduct a leadership program for women from Tajikistan.

2001

TAJIKISTAN WOMEN STRUGGLE
November 27, 2001 – (CNEWS) During Tajikistan's civil war, Ranu Kabarova was kidnapped by strict Islamic militants who demanded she cover her head and quit her job as a farm manager.


IOM STUDY REVEALS TRENDS IN TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN FROM TAJIKISTAN
August 17, 2001 – (International Organization for Migration – Dushanbe) An IOM study published today - "Deceived Migrants from Tajikistan: A study in Trafficking in Women and Children" - reveals that an estimated 1,000 women were trafficked from Tajikistan in the year 2000. Traffickers, usually Tajik women, rely on job promises carried by word of mouth, the inexperience of victims and the support of a series of well connected contacts, such as travel agencies and officials. The report also found that although less frequent, abandoned children are also trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.


THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY HAS CONGRATULATED THE WOMEN OF THE COUNTRY WITH THE HOLIDAY
March 7, 2001 – (TAJNET) In connection with a coming international women's day March, 8 the President of the RT Emomali Rakhmonov has congratulated all the women of the country with a holiday. The head of the state has noted, that participation of women in political, economic and cultural life of the country is hugely. Many Tajik women are known today for their achievements in the field of medicine, education, industry, economy, culture and even engineering not only in our country, but also outside it. The role of the Tajik woman, as women - mothers is also important. She will bring up the future generation of Tajikistan." We know, that our women will be a steady support in peace making of our young independent republic. I wish you health, happiness and peace, dear women ", - it is said in conclusion of the congratulatory message of the President of the RT E. Rakhmonov.


1998

NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN IN TAJIKISTAN
March 8, 1998 – (BBC) The mountainous central Asian republic of Tajikistan is recovering from years of warfare in which tens of thousands of people have died. The fighting took the lives mainly of Tajik men but impoverished the lives of its women. Monica Whitlock covered the war in Tajikistan; she went back to look at the peace.

 

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