Social justice

Tajik Hostel Evictions Highlight Unclear Laws

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

Reporter Khalil Qoimzod asks why Tajikistan’s sporting achievements leave so much to be desired.

19 Apr 10

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