Women's rights and security in Central Asia

World Policy Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-67

  Cooper, Belinda ^a   Isabel Traugott, ^a  

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EID: 0038473865     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2003-2003     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2001 (March 4, 2000), Uzbekistan, available at www.state.gov./g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8366.htm.
2. Human Rights Watch, "Uzbekistan: U.S. Rubber Stamps Human Rights," news release (New York, September 9, 2002), available at www.hrw.org/press/2002/09/uzbek0909.htm.
3. Human Rights Watch, "State Department Fails to Designate Partners as Violators of Religious Freedom," news release (Washington, D.C., March 5, 2003), available at www.hrw.org/press/2003/03/us030503.htm.
4. See, for example, U.S. Department of State fact sheet, "U.S. Assistance to Uzbekistan - Fiscal Year 2002," June 6, 2002, available at www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/11038pf.htm.
5. Jan Goodwin and Jessica Neuwirth, "The Rifle and the Veil," New York Times, October 19, 2001.
6. For examples of women's responses to such treatment in a number of countries, see Jan Goodwin, The Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World (New York: Plume, 1995).
7. Gregory J. Massell, The Surrogate Proletariat: Moslem Women and Revolutionary Strategies in Soviet Central Asia, 1919-1929 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974).
8. See, for example, Marfua Tokhtakhodjaeva, Between the Slogans of Communism and the Laws of Islam, trans. Sufian Aslam (Lahore, Pakistan: Shirkat Gah Women's Resource Center, 1995), esp. pp. 56-66.
9. Wahabism is the deeply Puritanical form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, but the word is used by the Karimov government to refer to any form of unsanctioned religious observance.
10. Ahmed Rashid, "The Fires of Faith in Central Asia," World Policy Journal, vol. 18 (spring 2001), p. 54.
11. Human Rights Watch, Class Dismissed: Discriminatory Expulsions of Muslim Students, October 1999.
12. For a discussion of the gender aspect of drug trafficking, see Nancy Lubin, Alex Klaits, and Igor Barsegian, Narcotics Interdiction in Afghanistan and Central Asia: Challenges for International Assistance (New York: Open Society Institute, 2002), pp. 16-20.
13. For an in-depth discussion of these and other problems in building civil society in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, see Sarah Mendelson and John Glenn, eds. The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002).