Five-year Sentence for Turkmen Blogger Who Wrote Poem about Coronavirus
YouTube blogger Murat Ovezov was sentenced to five years’ detention in summer 2020 after he wrote a poem about coronavirus…
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PUNITIVE PSYCHIATRIC DETENTION: UZBEKISTAN’S LASTING LEGACY OF SOVIET REPRESSION
Bagmanyan had no history of mental health problems. Beginning in 2018, he had been battling to save his property from…
WHO/ILO: Almost 2 million people die from work-related causes each year
The first WHO/ILO global estimates on disease and injury in the workplace outline the level of preventable premature deaths due…
ITUC/ETUC letter to Ukrainian authorities over the ongoing regressive labour legislation reform
Here you can find a letter on behalf of the ITUC General Secretary, Ms. Sharan Burrow, and ETUC and PERC…
Kyrgyzstan: ITUC welcomes veto of anti-worker bill
The lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan must use the expertise of its workers’ unions and the ILO to assist in any legislative…
WHY ARE BLIND TEACHERS DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN UZBEKISTAN?
The involvement of blind and visually impaired teachers in the education system is necessary for the promotion of inclusion in…
Internet Censorship 2021: A Global Map of Internet Restrictions
Nearly 60 percent of the world’s population (4.66 billion people) uses the internet. It’s our source of instant information, entertainment,…
Kyrgyz Heavy Metal: Inside The Mercury Mine Of Aidarken
The huge mercury mine at Aidarken in Kyrgyzstan once supplied the entire Soviet Union. It now produces a fraction of…
“Survival of the Fittest.” Turkmen.news Presents Independent Report on Coronavirus in Turkmenistan
For more than a year now Turkmenistan’s government has declared the country free of coronavirus. They feed this story not…
Doctor Demanding Justice Detained in Turkmenistan
Turkmen.news, an independent outlet based in the Netherlands, reported that about 10 police detained Ismatullaeva from her home and confiscated…