Tajikistan News » Gorno Badakhshan News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan: Rights group documents persistent abuses in mountainous autonomous region
A leading rights watchdog group has released a report documenting an ongoing government crackdown on the poorest of the poor in Central Asia’s least economically developed state. Persistent repression ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Amid Chinese Investments in Tajikistan, Pamiris Are Losing Their Agency
The river near Kishti Poyan, bordering GBAO, May 2022. Credit: Oliver Reschreiter Subscribe for ads-free reading Amid the fervor surrounding China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Tajikistan stands ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan systematically violates rights of Pamiri minority: Amnesty International
Tajikistan’s authorities systematically discriminate against the Pamiri minority, and grossly violate their rights, through suppression of cultural and religious institutions, political exclusion and ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan commissions new facilities across Gorno-Badakhshan
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 28. President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon remotely commissioned 90 facilities of various purposes across the city and districts of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan: Pamiri Minority Facing Systemic Discrimination in ‘Overlooked Human Rights Crisis’
The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan: Reprisals against Pamiri minority suppression of local identity, clampdown on all dissent
The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) is a region in the remote Pamir mountains of East Tajikistan, the home of distinct ethnic groups. Together, they form the Pamiri minority communities whom ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Is Central Asia About to Get a New Country?
But inside Tajikistan, hidden high in the Pamir Mountains, lies a vast autonomous region that could one day become the world’s next country. Gorno-Badakhshan - which occupies 45% of Tajikistan’s land ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajik Official Confirms Arrests Of Almost 30 Residents Of Volatile Gorno-Badakhshan Region
DUSHANBE -- Tajikistan's First Deputy Interior Minister Abdurahmon Alamshozoda has confirmed reports by RFE/RL's Tajik Service that 27 residents of the Yazgulom community in the volatile ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan expands tourism infrastructure in GBAO
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 28. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon commissioned new hotels and tourism infrastructure facilities in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of Tajikistan as part of ...
News Tajikistan » Gorno-Badakhshan » Politics: Tajikistan: Supporting Entrepreneurship for Economic Development
The C-JET Grant aimed to improve livelihoods in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and Khatlon through tourism and agribusiness. It supported the private sector’s growth by financing technical ...