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Around the world, progress on women’s rights is vanishing before our eyes. The latest forecasts estimate that on our current track, it will take another 300 years to reach full gender equality.

GENEVA/TASHKENT/ASTANA (9 March 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will visit Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan over a period of five days from 13 March, at the invitation of the two Central Asian States.

On 17 March the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NHRC) jointly with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, held a presentation of the Analytical Report on the legislation and practice of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the context of the prospect of joining the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, for representatives the Senate and the Legislative Chamber of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the office of the Ombudsman, the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the State Security Service, the Prosecutor General’s Office, the Law Enforcement Academy, the University of Public Security, the Tashkent State Law University, the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and representatives of UN agencies and diplomatic missions.

UNOPS Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Mr. Moin Karim concluded his three-day visit to Uzbekistan following meetings with government counterparts, UNOPS partners and stakeholders to discuss ongoing initiatives in the region.