DUSHANBE, March 16, 2012, Asia-Plus — Tajik Ombudsman Zarif Alizoda has prepared its second report.
The report reportedly reflects what Tajik Ombudsman’s Office done in 2011 and issues related to the human rights situation in the country over the report period.
Aziz Soliyev, a spokesman for Tajik Ombudsman’s Office, says the report describes issues of authorities’ response to complaints and applications of citizens, interaction between public institutions in that direction and expansion of international cooperation.
“To strengthen positions of protection of rights and freedoms of citizens the report includes 83 recommendations, in the report for the first anniversary of the institution of human rights ombudsman in Tajikistan there were 58 recommendations,” Soliyev said.
According to him, the report copies will be sent to the President, both Chambers of the Parliament, the Government, the Constitutional, Supreme and the High Economic Courts, as well as the Prosecutor-General’s Office and non-governmental and international organizations.
We will recall that the idea of forming the National Human Rights Institution (Ombudsman institution) had been discussed periodically since 2000 and supported by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and the United Nations through several forums in Tajikistan.
President Emomali Rahmon singed the Law on the Human Rights Ombudsman in March 2008 and the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower house of parliament) approved candidacy of Zarif Alizoda, formerly State Adviser to the President for Legal Policy and President’s Representative in Parliament, for the post of human rights commissioner in May 2009. Alizoda was nominated for this position by President Rahmon.
