United Nations, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 36th session, Concluding Comments: Uzbekistan (25 August 2006) (PDF, 7 pages) (for Committee information prior to 31 December 2007, please click here.).
United Nations Development Programme, Uzbekistan, Publications, Gender Briefing Kit: National Plan of Action (2004) (last accessed October 2008).
United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, Expert Group Meeting in Romania adopts a Model National Plan for Action for the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (last accessed 28 October 2008).
United Nations Information Service, Press Releases, Economic, Social, Political Problems, Tense Geopolitical Situation in Region Impede Uzbekistan's Implementation of Women's Anti-Discrimination Convention, WOM/1574 (11 August 2006).
U.S. Department of State; Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2007: Uzbekistan (11 March 2008).
U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Trafficking in Persons Report 2008: Uzbekistan (4 June 2008).
2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uzbekistan, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 28 February 2005.Section 5 of the report contains a paragraph on the status of women in Uzbekistan, and a subsection on trafficking. Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2004 (Events of 2003), International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 23 June 2004. (PDF, 12 pages). This report discusses the human rights situation in Uzbekistan.
Trafficking in Persons Report: Uzbekistan, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State, 14 June 2004. This report provides an evaluation on the situation of trafficking in persons in Uzbekistan.
2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uzbekistan, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 25 February 2004. This report includes sections on the status of women and on trafficking in persons.
Uzbekistan. From House to House: Abuses by Mallala Committees, Human Rights Watch, September 2003. This report contains a section on domestic violence in Uzbekistan (on page 23).
Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2003 (Events of 2002), International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 24 June 2003. (PDF, 11 pages). This report discusses the human rights situation in Uzbekistan.
Trafficking in Persons Report: Uzbekistan, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State, June 2003. This report provides an evaluation on the situation of trafficking in persons in Uzbekistan.
Domestic Violence in Uzbekistan, The Advocates for Human Rights, December 2002. (PDF, 74 pages). This report documents domestic violence as a human rights violation in Uzbekistan. The report analyzes the Uzbek legal system, including the criminal justice system and family law. The report includes a discussion of the mahallah structure and how it relates to domestic violence as well as information on both the police and NGO response to domestic violence in Uzbekistan. The report also addresses Uzbekistan's obligations under international law.
Sacrificing Women to Save the Family? Domestic Violence in Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch Report, July 2001. This report highlights the failure of the State to investigate allegations of domestic abuse, focusing largely on interviews with women in rural communities.
A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 19 June 2000. (PDF, 91 pages). The section on trafficking in Uzbekistan begins on page 68.
Report on the Status of Women in Uzbekistan, Dilnara Isamiddinova, Nishanbay Sirojiddinov, MarfuaTokhtakhodjayeva, Galiya Tansykbayeva, Matluba Khakimova, Batyr Alimukhamedov, Aleksandr Novotny, Ramizullo Zabikhodjayev, Nazokat Kasymova, U.N. Development Programme and GID. This report discusses several aspects of the status of Uzbek women, including reforms during transition, law and gender relations, demographics, social protection, economy, health care and education.
Women 2000 - An Investigation into the Status of Women's Rights in Central and South-Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 5 November 2000. (PDF, 14 pages).This report is wide-ranging, including, among other issues, education, work, family, reproductive rights, domestic violence, rape, trafficking and a section on women and sexual orientation and women in prison.
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