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In January 2022, over 230 people were shot dead in the Kazak metropole Almaty. The government reported over 4.300 injuries within one week, after heavy riots. In the weeks before.
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European Parliament, JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation in Kazakhstan. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2022-0065_EN.html, 19. January 2022.
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UN OHCHR, 6 January 2022, ‘Amid alarming reports of deadly violence in Kazakhstan, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Central Asia have called for restraint and dialogue.’ https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1109252.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people.
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All human rights treaties country reports, UPRs, and Special Procedures of Central Asian Countries can be found on the UNOHCHR database: https://www.ohchr.org/en/publicationsresources/pages/databases.aspx (January 2022).
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UN Human Rights Treaties are: UN-Conventions against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT); International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD); International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CMW); and Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC); Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).
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OSCE-ODIHR, Annual Human Dimension Implementation Meetings https://www.osce.org/odihr/hdim.
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EU ‘Strengthening human rights and democracy in the world: EU launches a €1.5 billion plan to promote universal values’ 16 December 2021, https://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/uzbekistan/109014/strengthening-human-rights-and-democracy-world-eu-launches-%E2%82%AC15-billion-plan-promote-universal_en.
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Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, November 2021, https://www.rferl.org/a/central-asia-human-rights-european-union/31569193.html.
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Council of Europe, Central Asia Rule of Law Program, Strasbourg, 2019, https://www.coe.int/en/web/programmes/central-asia.
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Kemel Toktomushev: China in Post-Kazakhstan Central Asia: “Bei**g, We Have a Problem!” Feb 08, 2022, https://www.chinausfocus.com/foreign-policy/china-in-post-kazakhstan-central-asia-bei**g-we-have-a-problem.
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EU ‚ 17th EU-Central Asia Ministerial Meeting, 22 November 2021, https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_21_6219.
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Mihr, A. (2023). Human Rights in Central Asian States and European Initiatives. In: Khan, K.H., Mihr, A. (eds) Europe-Central Asia Relations . Europe-Asia Connectivity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8707-6_7
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