Draft new strategy documents were prepared by the National Center for Human Rights. Over the past three years, more than 5000 legal acts have been adopted, including four new codes, 186 laws, 1200 acts of the country’s President, which “are aimed at creating a legislative foundation for the realization of personal, political, economic, social and cultural rights and freedoms of citizens”.
In the field of human rights, Uzbekistan still didn’t have a long-term strategy. According to experts of the Center, its adoption and implementation will strengthen the process of forming a respectful attitude to human rights and freedoms in the country, and increase the country’s credibility in the international arena.
A wide program is provided to increase the level of knowledge of youth in the field of human rights. It is planned to introduce a special course “Human rights” in universities and training centers, expand classes on this topic in schools, lyceums and colleges. It is proposed to establish the annual National Prize “For the Protection of Human Rights”, and this year it is planned to hold the Human Rights Forum in Samarkand.
In particular, a separate place in the Strategy is reserved for the observance of human rights in the system of stay of persons in places of detention, where access to justice must be guaranteed. While in monitoring, the most reflecting realities, a few initiative groups of activists are engaged. Thanks to them, information on bullying in prisons is published.
Members of the UN Committee against Torture and experts at the November session in Geneva doubted declarative statements of Akmal Saidov, director of the National Center for Human Rights of Uzbekistan. The practice of torture and restriction of access to medical care continues in Uzbekistan, slave labor and difficult working conditions in places of detention lead to injuries. The announced reforms don’t provide an urgent response to state monitoring services.
Attempts to use existing national legal mechanisms lead to the conclusion that Uzbekistan still lacks effective means of protecting human rights. And most often, those guilty of torture and other official crimes avoid responsibility, contributing to the loss and forgery of evidence by their actions.
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