Field Reports
INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN CENTRAL ASIA
By Dr. Alfiya Shamsutdinova, Program Officer, IPPF-EN Field Office for Central Asia (3/29/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is the world's largest international non-governmental organization advocating for sexual rights, and providing quality reproductive health care including family planning information and services. The IPPF European Network Field Office for Central Asia opened in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1996. The Field Office’s purpose is to improve the capacity of local and national governments and non-governmental organizations to work together as partners to make a difference in individual lives and public spheres of women, men, and those who are socially excluded, particularly young people.
KYRGYZ ELECTION PROTESTS AGAINST THE BARRING OF DANIYAR USENOV
By Alexandra Shpakova, International Relations Department undergraduate, American Univeristy--Kyrgyzsta (3/29/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In the first round of Kyrgyzstan’s parliamentary elections held on February 20, opposition candidate Daniyar Usenov received 12,402 votes in his Bishkek constituency. Usenov, very popular among the Kyrgyzstan population, planned to run for president against the current leader Askar Akayev. However, these plans were derailed when on March 2, 2000, the Kyrgyzstan Territorial Electoral Committee received a report from opposing candidate Isa Tokoyev that Daniyar Usenov had failed to report several items in his pre-election property and tax declarations.
CENTRAL ASIA’S FIRST GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL NGO
By Eric Sievers, LEEP (4/12/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ecology and Public Opinion emerged In Pavlodar, Kazakhstan as Central Asia's first grassroots environmental NGO in 1987. By 1990, 30% of Central Asia's several hundred grassroots NGOs pursued environmental missions. In 1991, this environmental community was electing representatives to local legislatures, suing Alma-Ata's mayor in the USSR Supreme Court, arresting armed poachers in Turkmenistan, and lobbying successfully to create the planet's largest national park in Tajikistan.
TRAINING WOMEN LEADERS IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anna Kirey, Journalism Undergraduate, American University, Kyrgyzstan (4/12/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
According to the Russian social magazine "Ogonyok," every third leader in Kyrgyzstan is a woman. Kyrgyz culture is known for its famous women leaders of the past. One such female leader, Kurmanjan Datka, refused to live with the husband she was forced to marry and ruled the country alone when her second husband died.
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