http://www.unimondo.org/article/country/417/ it_IT Kirzichistan http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82593 The European Union is eager to strengthen its economic partnerships with Central Asian nations, notably Turkmenistan, despite the extremely poor human rights records of countries in this region, writes David Cronin. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82112 Rebiya, a woman from the Uighur community in western China, was forced to flee her home due to her father's involvement in controversial political matters and now struggles to attain citizenship in Kyrgyzstan, her land of refuge. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81887 In Kyrgyzstan and many other Central Asian countries, social norms bar women drug users from self-help programs, such as needle exchange, and facilitate their exploitation by other members of society. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/153809/1/ As the outcome of the Ukrainian election threatens to peel away the orange revolution, Misha Kechaqmadze traces the success of post-Soviet regimes to stamp out the march to democracy. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79717 Kyrgyzstan's new president was elected with the promise to respect the law and civil freedoms, but now women activists are mobilizing amid reports that the government is accountable for a deterioration of the human rights situation. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78762 Martin Fluch teaches German at Kyrgyzstan’s secondary school #18. Short on books but long on energy, he has embarked on a 680-kilometer run to raise money and awareness for his country's under-supplied and under-staffed educational system. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/139251/1/ SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - The Bush Administration is objecting to a groundbreaking treaty that set up a nuclear weapon-free zone in Central Asia. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/139136/1/ Five Central Asian states committed themselves to never acquiring, manufacturing, possessing, or testing nuclear weapons by signing a treaty Thursday to create a Central Asian nuclear-weapon-free zone. From: Arms Control Association http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71013 A presidential decree set to make Friday's first anniversary of Kyrgyzstan's revolution a national holiday has members of the business and upper classes up in arms. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/67139 Over 400 Uzbek refugees who fled to Kyrgyzstan after May’s Andijan massacre are to be given new homes abroad, despite Uzbek pressure that Kyrgyzstan return the refugees. The U.N.'s refugee chief in Kyrgyzstan refused to say where the refugees will go, though speculation points to the Czech Republic, Ukraine, or Canada. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/66810 Acting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev won a landslide victory in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential elections Sunday, calling the vote a "victory of our people's revolution." Promising to fight corruption and reduce presidential power, it was Bakiyev's announcement to reconsider a U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan that struck a chord in Washington. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/66355 Bride kidnapping is so prevalent in Kyrgyzstan that nearly half of ethnic Kyrgyz women are married this way. Kidnapped and often raped, women are held until they consent to marry their captor. Often overlooked by authorities, some officials are calling for attention to be paid--by including the practice under future anti-trafficking legislation. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65964 The weak interim regime in Kyrgyzstan has caved in to strong-armed pressure from President Karimov to return the refugees who fled from the Andijan massacre. Fears for their safety in Uzbekistan are intense. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65751 The violence in Andijan has generated a stream of refugees desperate to cross the border into Kyrgyzstan. But the Kyrgyz authorities are in no hurry to allow them in whilst the heavyhanded Uzbeks are prepared to open fire to prevent then leaving. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/64655 The instant analysis by many political analysts--as well as the Bush administration--is to classify Kyrgyzstan as part of the global domino effect of democracy, but the lack of control and agreement among those who have taken power is worrisome, says the editor of an online journal specializing in Central Asia, and the country could wander down a dangerous path in coming weeks, even emerging as a new safe haven for international terrorist operations.