"OIC International Debate Championship" will start in the Eurasian countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) under the initiative and co-organization of the Eurasian Regional Center of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF-ERC).
"OIC International Debate Championship" will start in the Eurasian countries that are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) under the initiative and co-organization of the Eurasian Regional Center of the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF-ERC)
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Uzbek authorities have boasted of opening up, of great reforms in progress, since 2016. But for many independent Uzbek NGOs, the barriers to registration remain high and almost unscalable, as Dilmurad Yusupov, a Ph.D. researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, explains in the interview below with The Diplomat’s Catherine Putz. Tashkent has bragged of 10,000 NGOs in the country, but Yusupov says the official statistic is inflated by government-organized NGOs (GONGOs) which are backed by considerable institutional support and lack the grassroot connections of genuine NGOs.
Yusupov, an advocate for disability inclusion and civil society development in Uzbekistan, stresses that truly independent NGOs are critical to Uzbekistan’s democratic development.