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Azizbek Hamraliev is a third-generation horticulture producer from Kuvasay, Ferghana. He cultivates fruits and vegetables on his family-owned 25-hectare farm. Like most of Uzbekistan’s fertile Fergana Valley, Azizbek’s village receives water from the Syrdarya River. A canal from the Syrdarya feeds three villages before it gets to Qo’chqorchi, home to 48 orchards, including Azizbek’s.
Today, the Kazakhstan Judicial Program, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and implemented by ABA ROLI, in cooperation with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, organized an online roundtable discussion on criminal proceedings, including criminal cases involving extremism and terrorism.
Tuberculosis (TB) in prisons and dropping out of TB treatment by post-released convicts along with the spread of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) and TB/HIV among prisoners are one of the most socio-medical problems in penal and civilian health sectors of Tajikistan.
Izatulo Saduloev is a fruit producer and exporter from the Khatlon region of Tajikistan. With USAID’s assistance, Izatulo built the first cold storage facility in Khatlon and is now a pioneer watermelon exporter to the Baltics. Within just two growing seasons, USAID helped with the formation of a cooperative and eight smallholder farmers are now exporting watermelons from Tajikistan to Lithuania.
Tajikistan is Central Asia’s poorest country and one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Over 33 percent of its national gross domestic product is generated from remittances. While remittances have had a positive impact on the lives of many migrant laborers, without sufficient legal and safe ways to migrate, it increases migrants’ risk of vulnerability to modern slavery, forced labor and human trafficking.
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