Social justice

Tajik Disablement Laws Obstruct Access to Jobs

Categorisation as “unfit for work” bars people who would otherwise be keen to enter employment.

20 Aug 10

As long-term residents of a worker’s hostel are turned out into the street, legal experts say the right to somewhere to live is overriding.

14 Jul 10

9 Jul 10

Job-seekers routinely rejected because of sexual orientation.

5 Jul 10

Behind the cheering, quiet resentment at being forced to turn up and applaud government.

22 Jun 10

Why has the president taken against the ubiquitous mobile phone?

4 Jun 10

Half a million displaced Iraqis face grim future in squalid squatter camps.

28 May 10

Russian film’s hapless heroes supposed to be from imaginary country, but everyone is sure it’s a xenophobic view of Tajiks.

26 May 10

Tajikistan’s only school for the gypsy community is struggling against the odds to offer a better future to children from the minority.

14 May 10

New rules intended to stem flow of rural poor to urban areas.

10 May 10

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