The United States Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs highlights the drug control efforts worldwide, including identifying major drug producing and transit countries and...
The UN Child Rights Committee emphasizes issues requiring urgent attention and measures from the government of Turkmenistan. The Committee’s concerns, as articulated in its concluding observations, highlight...
In Turkmenistan 87% of the children aged 0-17 years in formal residential care are children with disabilities. UNICEF published a policy brief on Keeping Families Together in Central Asia that emphasized the goal of...
A joint report by the Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland and the Energy Foundation China titled “Overview of methane mitigation policies in global key emitters beyond the United States and...
Experts from Central Asian countries (except Turkmenistan) discussed the issue of environmental migration and its possible increase in the future at a meeting organized by CABAR.asia. Projections indicate that global...
Altyn Asyr Lake is a man-made lake in the Karashor depression of the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. The project was an evolution of the initial idea to direct collector drainage waters into the Caspian Sea via a Trans...
Turkmenistan has made some limited headway in reducing maternal mortality but a closer examination of the available data reveals gaps and challenges that could hinder further progress. According to the World Health...
Velina Todorova, the UN Child Rights Committee: “How long will it take the [Turkmen] government to start implementing the recommendations?” Vepa Hajiyev, Head of the Turkmenistan government delegation:...
MeteoJurnal points at the shrinking size of the Sarygamysh Lake providing reasons and future consequences that may follow if the shrinkage continues. Sarygamysh Lake, located in northern Turkmenistan, has been shrinking...
Turkmenistan’s cotton industry has long been marred by allegations of forced labor, particularly involving children. This was one of the issues raised by the Committee while Turkmenistan was reviewed under the...
