The Tajik of Racial Discrimination (1995, CERD), the International Constitution guarantees that the people of Tajikistan are Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1999), the citizens of the country irrespective of their nationality International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural (Article 6), and that everyone is equal before the law and Rights (1999, ICESCR), and the International Conven. [...] Finally, the Constitution lacks a The single regional legal instrument concerning the specific provision for the recognition and protection of the rights of minority groups is the 1998 Convention on the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities. [...] 8 THE SITUATION OF MINORITIES IN TAJIKISTAN 3 Language In line with the Constitution of Tajikistan, Tajik is the among 29 per cent of Tajiks, 10 per cent of Uzbeks, 11.4 state language and Russian is recognized as the language of per cent of Kyrgyz, and 45.3 per cent of Tatars. [...] The State Programme for Improving the Teaching and Salaries for teachers and faculty members remain low due Learning of Russian and English in the Republic of to lack of funding, while the weak school system Tajikistan stresses that Russian plays the role of an inter- negatively affects the ability of the higher education bodies ethnic language in Tajikistan (Chapter 1). [...] At the same time, Russians are more Tajikistan are in decline due to the lack of demand, the successful in the commercial sphere, where the respondent introduction of industrial carpets and the emigration of felt that their achievements are more widely recognized.
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Table of Contents
- Executive summary 2 3
- Introduction 3 3
- Methodology 4 3
- 1 Legislation and Rights Awareness 5 3
- 2 Self-identification Inter-ethnic Relations and Kin-states 7 3
- 3 Language 9 3
- 4 Education 13 3
- 5 Religion 17 3
- 6 Socio-Economic Participation 19 3
- 7 Intersectional Discrimination 21 3
- 8 Lyulis 23 3
- 9 Pamiris 25 3
- 10 Refugees 27 3
- Recommendations 28 3
- Bibliography 30 3
- Executive summary 4
- Introduction 5
- Methodology 6
- 1 Legislation and Rights Awareness 7
- 2.1 Self-identification 9
- 2 Self-identification Inter-ethnic 9
- Relations and Kin-states 9
- 2.2 Inter-ethnic relations 10
- 2.3 Kin-state relations 10
- 3 Language 11
- Tajik 11
- Russian 11
- Other 11
- 3.1 Russian language as an inter-ethnic language 12
- Uzbeks 12
- Russians 12
- Kyrgyz 12
- Tatars 12
- 3.2 Other larger ethnic minorities Uzbek and Kyrgyz minorities 13
- Tajiks 13
- Kyrgyz 13
- Uzbeks 13
- Tatars 13
- 3.2 Language preservation 14
- 4 Education 15
- 4.1 Uzbek minority education 16
- 4.2 Russian minority education 17
- 4.3 Kyrgyz minority education 17
- 5 Religion 19
- 6 Socio-Economic Participation 21
- 7 Intersectional Discrimination 23
- 8 Lyulis 25
- 9 Pamiris 27
- 10 Refugees 29
- Governmental Bodies 30
- International Organizations 30
- Recommendations 30
- Civil Society Organizations 31
- Bibliography 32
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