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Uzbekistan: The human rights implications of an abuser government's improving relations with the international community

Uzbekistan: The human rights implications of an abuser government's improving relations with the... Uzbekistan: The human rights implications of an abuser government's improving relations with the international community Erika Dailey As in all of the Soviet republics, the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan tolerated a dramatic blossoming of democratic freedoms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But while these positive trends have continued in some of these now independent countries, Uzbekistan crushed its budding democracy movement and retreated back to most of the abusive practices from which it had just emerged, earning a reputation as one of the most repressive countries in the world. In the fall of 1994 came the first signs that the government of Uzbekistan had begun taking steps to remove that stigma: to establish internal mechanisms for improving compliance with its human rights obligations, and to cooperate with outside monitors, such as the United Nations, the Organi- zation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and even Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, which previously had regularly been lambasted in the Uz- bekistan media as an 'enemy of the people'. A Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (formerly Helsinki Watch) investigative mission to Uzbekistan in November 1995 sought to evaluate these measures.' The preliminary conclusion is that the diplomatic climate has improved http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0925-0972
eISSN
1571-814X
DOI
10.1163/157181496X00297
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Abstract

Uzbekistan: The human rights implications of an abuser government's improving relations with the international community Erika Dailey As in all of the Soviet republics, the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan tolerated a dramatic blossoming of democratic freedoms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But while these positive trends have continued in some of these now independent countries, Uzbekistan crushed its budding democracy movement and retreated back to most of the abusive practices from which it had just emerged, earning a reputation as one of the most repressive countries in the world. In the fall of 1994 came the first signs that the government of Uzbekistan had begun taking steps to remove that stigma: to establish internal mechanisms for improving compliance with its human rights obligations, and to cooperate with outside monitors, such as the United Nations, the Organi- zation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and even Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, which previously had regularly been lambasted in the Uz- bekistan media as an 'enemy of the people'. A Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (formerly Helsinki Watch) investigative mission to Uzbekistan in November 1995 sought to evaluate these measures.' The preliminary conclusion is that the diplomatic climate has improved

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Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1996

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