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Kyrgyzstan
Our Partner
Human Rights Center/Citizens against Corruption (CAC), founded in 2000, aims to decrease corruption, poverty, and injustice, and to improve the human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan by empowering local NGOs and activists to become sustainable, self-sufficient civil society actors and activists, involving them in decision making processes at all levels.
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In cooperation with its network of human rights organizations, CAC focuses on the rights of women and refugees, provides legal consultation, and conducts research and disseminates its findings. CAC also convenes civic forums, participates in public hearings, and trains human rights defenders. CAC advocates against corruption in the government through election monitoring and reform, for increased numbers of women in parliament, and against the use of torture and the death penalty.
CAC’s objectives are to:
- Achieve fair and transparent elections through the participation of civil society representatives who use non-violent methods of civil disobedience.
- Create a supportive environment for new leaders who abide by international obligations, human rights, rule of law, and social justice.
- Work closely with the parliament to initiate new laws and make suggestions for improving current legislation.
- Monitor parliamentary activities and focus on creating legislation based on international obligations and basic values such as human rights, security, and social justice.
- Promote free access to information on activities of the parliament, executive and judiciary branches of government to create a system of accountability and transparency.
- Work closely with international organizations to reform the structure of law enforcement bodies and the national security system to decrease violations of human rights and torture, and to eliminate the death penalty.
Stories and Reports
Second WLP Central Asia Regional Institute Brings Activists to Leadership and Advocacy Training
February 2008 Update: Read an interview with Tolekan Ismailova on the human rights situation in Kyrgyzstan.
December 26, 2007
WLP's partner Tolekan Ismailova sent the following information after her second night of incarceration following her arrest last week while peacefully protesting irregularities in the Kyrgyzstan elections. Tolekan along with several other arrested activists are being denied access to lawyers and relatives and to proper medical care. They have received verbal threats and intimidation by the police, and are being held in cells with unhygienic conditions. The court hearings have been delayed three times since their arrest on December 21st and are now scheduled to be held after the new year.
Scroll below to read the alert issued on December 21st.
"During the two days I had high blood pressure. Previously I had been diagnosed and registered in rayon polyclinic as a hypertensive patient.
When I asked that [the prison] doctor provide me with assistance, I was told that there was no doctor... Then I asked to call emergency, and it showed up an hour later. My blood pressure was 150 over 90 by then, so they had to give me an injection of magnesium.
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Kyrgyzstan | Human Rights Alerts )
Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership in Central Asia
Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) together with its regional partner convened a Central Asia Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership from August 24-27, 2005 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan. NGO leaders, journalists, and human rights activists from five countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - participated in the Institute, which consisted of a week-long intensive skills development program in participatory leadership, interactive facilitation, persuasive communication, and effective advocacy campaign development.
The Institute took place amidst an atmosphere of heightened security and political tensions in the region. In the face of increasing restrictions on civil society and NGOs, human rights, and press freedom in the region, WLP brought participants together to create a regional network of women's rights advocates working to advance women in leadership and decision-making positions.
