Ending statelessness is easy, says Kyrgyz winner of top UN prize
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation A lawyer who helped Kyrgyzstan become the first country to eradicate statelessness has urged politicians to end the plight of millions of “legal ghosts” who lack any nationality after winning a prestigious UN award on Wednesday. Kyrgyz human rights lawyer Azizbek Ashurov said combating statelessness was “simple”, but required political will, […]
BORDER WARS: DISPUTE OVER GEORGIAN MONASTERY SPOTLIGHTS POST-SOVIET TROUBLES
UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Kyrgyzstan makes history as it ends plight of last “legal ghosts”
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Kyrgyzstan handed citizenship to the last stateless people on its territory on Thursday in what UN officials hailed as a breakthrough in the global fight to end the plight of millions of “legal ghosts” who lack any nationality. An estimated 10 to 15 million people worldwide are not recognised as nationals by […]
SNAPSHOT: SONG-KUL, KYRGYZSTAN
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POSTCARDS: KYRGYZSTAN’S KIDNAPPED BRIDES USE FASHION AND FLAGS TO END MARRIAGE TABOO
ADELA SULIMAN reports from Central Asia…
POSTCARDS: IN KYRGYZSTAN, WARMING BRINGS LESS WATER – AND MORE CONFLICT
KATIE ARNOLD, reporting for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at how water shortages are causing tensions in Kyrgyzstan…
Kyrgyzstan church burned down
World Watch Monitor A Bible survived the arson attack on the Baptist church PICTURE: World Watch Monitor A Baptist community in eastern Kyrgyzstan fears for its safety after unknown attackers burned down its church building. The loss of the church has forced its 40 Kyrgyz and Russian members to start searching for a new place […]
CHRISTMAS IN KYRGYZSTAN
I have some friends who work in Kyrgyzstan, part of the former USSR. Christmas there is very interesting. THREATENING? What is it about the birth of Christ that our systems find so threatening? PICTURE: Greyson Joralemon/Unsplash. The communists eliminated Christmas. You don’t celebrate on 25th December, rather you give presents at New Year, under […]
More than 80 countries ‘favour’ one religion over others, says Pew report
World Watch Monitor More than 80 countries favour a specific religion, either officially as a state religion or tacitly through special treatment, according to a new report by the US-based Pew Research Center. Islam is the most common state religion – 27 countries have it as their official religion, including 16 of the 20 countries in the […]
KYRGYZSTAN: CHRISTIANS RECEIVING DEATH THREATS AS ETHNIC VIOLENCE KILLS 190
STEFAN J. BOS reports for BosNewsLife…