Rights & Prosperity international public organization has conducted an express survey, the goal of which was to study current level of perception of and tolerance to corruption in communities.
Meeting with participants of training sessions on “Public governance”, heads of mahalla committees and active rural citizens was conducted on March 16 this year.
is it necessary to create Public chambers in Tajikistan?
First civil society workshop European Union – Tajikistan on Human Rights
28 July 2009
The first civil society workshop EU – Tajikistan on human rights is finished. List of recommendations has been prepared for the government of the country. The European Commission in close cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan has organized the civil society workshop on human rights in Dushanbe. The workshop was dedicated to the “Right to fair trial process and independence of judicial authority.”
The workshop has supplemented the official dialogue on human rights between the European Union and the Republic of Tajikistan. The first session of the dialogue was held in October 2008. The next dialogue is scheduled for September 2009. The workshop brought together judges, lawyers, scientists and representatives of public organizations of Tajikistan and 12 EU member states and other international organizations such as OSCE and UNHCR.
The participants have discussed such important issues as independence of judges and lawyers, equality of methods of defense in case of criminal prosecution, guarantees for fair trial process, human rights after the closure of criminal case, conditions of detention and public monitoring of detention places and the right to individual complaints to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Tajikistan. The participants have also adjusted the list of recommendations and are about to prepare the report about the workshop.
Recommendations are expected to be taken into account during the implementation of ongoing reforms, including the jurisprudence reform and elaboration of the new Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan. Recommendations will be submitted to the Government of the Republic and the process of their implementation will be monitored during the next dialogue on human rights between the EU and Tajikistan which is due in Dushanbe in September this year.
The new strategy of the European Union for Central Asia is aimed at the strengthening of links between the European Union and Central Asian partners. The strategy provides for a double increase in EU funding for the region up to 750 million Euro for 2007-2013. Tajikistan will get major portion of bilateral cooperation (66 million Euro for the period from 2007 to 2010) in the form of support for sectoral programmes, technical assistance and grants. The assistance is focused on such spheres as social protection, health care and development of private sector which are being also supported by the government. The projects are aimed to continue the improvement of living conditions. Tajikistan also receives regional and thematic support for such spheres as border management and drugs control (BOMCA/CADAP), education (TEMPUS, Erasmus Mundus), management of water resources/environment protection, migration, human rights and democracy (EIDHR), nongovernmental structures (NSA) and development of small and medium enterprises (CA Invest).
