Inclusive Schools Still Exception for Tajik Disabled
A handful of kindergartens are geared towards bringing disabled children into the mainstream, but most schools remain unequipped to cope with special needs.
Tajiks Approve Costly School Reforms
Parliament has changed the law to make it mandatory for children to spend ten years at school instead of nine, the current minimum.
Tajik Polio Outbreak Strains Relations With Russia
Moscow and Dushanbe fall out over restrictions to prevent disease spreading.
Karadzic Wants Time to Read Mladic Notes
But judges say not necessary or in interests of justice to adjourn proceedings at this time.
Bosnian Witness Protection Rapped
The OSCE warns failures are jeopardising their right to security and privacy.
Prosecution Wants New Markale Witness
They want to use him to challenge Karadzic assertion that massacre was a “war trick”.
Karadzic Quizzed on Forced Resettlement Claims
Prosecution witness speaks of people being pressured into signing away their homes.
Serb Witness Tells of Banja Luka “Terror”
Former security service inspector says members of Serb unit were "masters of life and death" in the town.
Tajik Ombudsman on First Year in Office
Zarif Alizoda says official human rights watchdog can’t deal with every complaint filed to it – some are not in its mandate, others are groundless.
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Global Voices: Europe/Eurasia
Highlights from IWPR’s Central Asia network of analysis and investigations.
The construction of the Qosh Tepa canal in Afghanistan is causing water shortages in southern Uzbekistan, while in Kyrgyzstan the government is considering the construction of a nuclear power plant. In Kazakstan, conservation activists are working to save the Central Asian tortoise from extinction.
Elsewhere, CABAR delves into the efforts by Central Asian authorities to detect, reduce and prevent statelessness across the region.
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