DUSHANBE, May 31, 2013, Asia-Plus — Tajik Ombudsman Zarif Alizoda has attended a conference on labor migrants problems in Yekaterinburg, the capital of Russia’s Sverdlovsk oblast.
Aziz Soliyev, a spokesman for the Tajik Ombudsman office, says the conference entitled “Extension of Powers of Ombudsmen for Solution of Problems Facing Labor Migrants” took place on May 27-20 and Zarif Alizoda attended the conference at invitation of Ms. Tatiana Merzlyakova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Oblast.
While in Yekaterinburg, Alizoda reportedly held a number of meetings with human rights commissioners from 30 Russian regions. “Protection of rights and interests of Tajik labor migrants was a major topic of the meetings,” Soliyev said.
“Thus, Tajik Ombudsman and Commissioner for Human Rights in the Samar Oblast have signed an agreement on cooperation in protecting rights of Tajik labor migrants working in Samara,” Soliyev noted, adding that similar agreements have been also signed with Russian Ombudsman as well as human rights commissioners for the Sverdlovsk oblast and St. Petersburg.
