Tajik

UN judicial expert stresses need for further legal reforms in Tajikistan

30 September 2005
Tajikistan needs to undertake further legal reforms to ensure its peaceful development, including measures to strengthen human rights enforcement and guarrantee an independent judiciary, a United Nations judicial expert said today.

UN refugee agency deplores sudden deportations of Afghans from Tajikistan

16 September 2005
An Afghan woman and her four children who had been living in Tajikistan since 1992 were suddenly deported Wednesday to their home country, even though three of them had recently been accepted for resettlement in Canada, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Ron Redmond said today.

UN Children's Fund receives less than 20 per cent of appeal for flooded Tajikistan

12 September 2005
With a cholera outbreak, along with floods and mudflows from heavy rains and thawing snow and ice devastating Tajikistan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today said it has received just $700,000 out of the $4 million for which it has appealed urgently.