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Tajik Pensions Lag Far Behind Cost of Living

Pensioners in Tajikistan are finding life increasingly tough as their benefits fail to keep pace with inflation, Firuza Karabazova reports.

Early Marriages Worry Azerbaijan Officials

Unscrupulous mullahs accused of marrying young girls whose health and education then suffer.

Children Haunted by Georgia-Russia War

Volunteers try to help bereaved youngsters still traumatised by the conflict.

Suicide Cases Rising in Tajik Badakhstan

More and more young people are taking their own lives in Tajikistan’s mountainous southwest, and no one can really say why.

Access to Information Comes at a Price in Tajikistan

New rules requiring people to pay government institutions for advice and information have caused anger in Tajikistan, Central Asia’s poorest state.

Iraq: Oct/Nov ‘09

Senior Kurdish official offers help to impoverished former fighter featured in IWPR story.

Alarm as Turkmen Migration Law Gets Even Tougher

Human Rights Debate Contrasts East and West

When former Soviet diplomat Ishenbay Abdurazakov addressed students in the Kyrgyz capital, talk turned to the issue of whether western human rights values apply in this Central Asian state.

Kyrgyz Anti-Corruption Drive Catches Them Young

A campaign to root out corruption has been launched in Kyrgyzstan’s schools, the idea being that children acquire their values, good and bad, at an early age.

Youth Debate Role in Driving Social Change

Nuraim Ryskulova reports on a national youth camp where young people gathered from all over Kyrgyzstan to discuss how they could change their country for the better.