February 2025: Palaw Preparation Costs increase by 1.7%. In February 2025, the average cost of preparing palaw in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, increased to 64.0 Turkmen manat, reflecting a 1.7% rise from 63.0 manat in...
Some interesting public health data have been made public reflecting on poor governance in the public health sector. In 2021, the World Bank has approved USD 20 million for the Turkmenistan COVID-19 Response Project...
Turkmenistan recently amended its law to extend divorce delays, a measure that could place women and girls experiencing violence at greater risk. At the request of Progres Foundation, The Advocates for Human Rights...
The World Bank’s Turkmenistan Economic Report from December 2024 provides an overview of Turkmenistan’s economy, highlighting recent developments, key challenges and the outlook. Some of the important...
The United Nations published a Common Country Analysis (CCA) for Turkmenistan outlining the context for sustainable development in the country. The analysis was a collaboration of 19 UN agencies, funds and programmes...
The UN Committee against Torture (CAT), the body monitoring states’ compliance with the Convention against Torture, will review Turkmenistan’s record on 7 April – 2 May 2025. In its last concluding observations from...
Capacity is insufficient to safeguard the long-term survival of wildlife in Turkmenistan. A new report by several international organizations and the government of Turkmenistan, “Assessment of Wildlife and Protected...
Institute for Economics and Peace published its annual Global Terrorism Index (GTI). It summarizes global terrorism trends over the past decade, based on over 66,000 terrorist incidents since 2007. The GTI ranks 163...
The Freedom House published an article titled Ten Findings from Ten Years of Data on Transnational Repression. It summarizes the key findings from 1,219 incidents by 48 governments in 103 countries. Only 10 regimes...
A report by the World Bank “A Blueprint for Resilience: Charting the Course for Water Security in Europe and Central Asia”, published in June 2024, explores the regional challenges and opportunities related to water...
