Does the human rights situation in Kazakhstan compare favorably with conditions in other Central Asian countries?
In discussions with Human Rights Watch, policy makers and Kazakhstan’s government officials often draw comparisons among Central Asian governments’ human rights practices. The atmosphere of quiet and subtle repression in Kazakhstan doesn’t trigger as many headlines as more dramatic government crackdowns on human rights in some of the other countries in the region. But one could just as fairly ask why the government would want to use countries that have poor human rights records as a metric of comparison rather than countries that have good human rights records to which it might aspire. Kazakhstan’s human rights record is not in competition with the records of other states in the region as it assumes the office of OSCE chair, but with its own, voluntarily-assumed international obligations. Enforcing universal human rights principles is a core pillar of the OSCE, and the chair-in-office of the organization has a particular obligation to respect them. 5. Is media freedom respected in Kaza
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