DUSHANBE, December 7, Asia-Plus — Recommendations of the UN Committee for Human Rights are practically not implemented in Tajikistan, Deputy Justice Minister Gulchehra Sharipova announced at a conference on human rights situation in Tajikistan on December 7.
According to her, Tajikistan has not yet projected a platform for implementation of these recommendations.
However, Tajikistan has done quite a lot for providing protection of human rights, she added. “Tajikistan has joined seven international documents regulating human rights,” said the deputy minister, “Tajikistan has reported six times to the UN Committee for Human Rights on the human rights situation and is currently preparing the seventh national report on observance of rights of labor migrants and their family members.”
“However, the problem is not to prepare the national report and defend it but to implement recommendations given by the UN Committee,” Sharipova said, noting that the UN Committee for Human Rights has repeatedly pointed to the necessity of establishment of the ombudsman institution in the country and improving laws providing observance of the human rights.
“We still have a lot to do. Thus, we have to bring marriageable into compliance with the Convention on Child’s Rights,” Sharipova said, noting that implementation of the recommendations will start in full after creation of the ombudsman institution in the country. “We are currently working on a bill requiring creation of the ombudsman institution.
During the conference it was also noted that another problem is payment of compensations to persons, whose complaints were considered by the UN Committee for Human Rights and it made appropriate recommendations on them.
“The problem is that persons do not know that they may receive compensations for moral damage or just do not want to apply to government bodies on this issue,” Sharipova said.
The conference participants noted that one of key tasks facing Tajikistan was protection of rights of labor migrants working outside Tajikistan.
Nigina Bahriyeva, the chairperson of the Republican Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law, noted that specific steps should be taken protect rights of labor migrants.
The conference dedicated to International Human Rights Day, was staged the UNDP CO Tajikistan, the OSCE Center in Dushanbe and Office the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. It brought more than 80 persons, including representatives from parliament, president’s office, ministries and organizations, as well as NGOs and international organizations active in Tajikistan.
Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on December 10. The date was chosen to honor the United nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on December 10 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the first global enunciation of human right. The commemoration was established in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit.
The day is normally marked by both high-level political conferences and meetings and by cultural events and exhibitions dealing with human rights issues. In addition, it is traditionally on December 10 that the five-yearly United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights is awarded.
