Tajikistan

Locust infestations, exacerbated by environmental factors, are a serious problem for Tajikistan's agricultural production, threatening food security and economic stability

UN Women and Embassy of France in Tajikistan collaborated to host an event focused on protecting survivors of gender-based violence through shelters to raise awareness among government authorities, the private sector, development partners

The country has stepped up work on training migrant workers and diversifying labor migration destinations; under the Asian Development Bank project, three new migration service centers will be established this year

U.S. Agency for International Development contributed $7 million to World Food Program to strengthen assistance to vulnerable families facing growing food insecurity in Tajikistan

Tajikistan must reconsider its attitude towards civil society and consider human rights defenders as allies instead of enemies, said a UN expert after the dissolution of 700 NGOs in the country

Under the amendments to the country's education law, school attendance in grades 10-11 (upper secondary education) became compulsory, whereas previously only education grades 1-9 were compulsory

According to the official website of the Tajik President, the handicraft sector development is growing year on year under the special attention of President Emomali Rahmon himself

Irrigation water rate rose 150% in Tajikistan starting from January 1, 2024; the price for one cubic meter of irrigation water has increased from 0.002 somoni (€0,00017) to 0.005 somoni

The heads of ministries, agencies, provinces and cities will start holding press conferences on the results of the last six months' work on 29 January; on 4 March 2005, President Rahmon had signed a decree obliging them to hold quarterly press conferences

The Kazakh authorities sent the innovative Bark VibroLUNG medical equipment to health workers in Tajikistan after 40 Tajik specialists, including some pulmonologists, attended a special training course in Kazakhstan on how to use the device

Majlisi Milli President Rustam Emomali, who is also mayor of Dushanbe, visited the Iran House of Innovation and Technology in Tehran as part of his official visit to Iran

Two sets of equipment were handed over to the director of the Glacier Research Centre Abdulhamid Qayumov to study glaciers under real conditions

Training for 84 officers of the Tajikistan Border Guard was conducted by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe as part of the EU-funded project 'Stabilisation of Tajikistan's southern border with Afghanistan'