How safe is it to drive or be a passenger in Turkmenistan? Research suggests the country’s roads remain hazardous. According to the World Health Organization, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for...
Eurasian Coalition for Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM), founded in 2011, is an international non-governmental association based in Tallinn, Estonia, working in the field of rights and health of LGBTQ+...
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has once again recommended that the U.S. State Department redesignate Turkmenistan as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) due to...
A report by Equality Now, Breaking Barriers: Addressing Child, Early, and Forced Marriage (CEFM) in Eurasia, examines the prevalence and causes of CEFM in seven Eurasian countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia...
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...
How and why do the principles of neutrality in international law serve an authoritarian country Turkmenistan? Assuming an autocrat is committed to regime survival at the expense of other competing governing priorities...
As Serdar Berdimuhamedov approaches his third year in office, his administration continues to face a growing list of pressing domestic challenges. Despite expectations for reforms, his presidency has been marked by...
