Field Reports
DRUG USE IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Nurbubu Moldogazieva is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic (2/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The southern borders of Kyrgyzstan are a route for drug trafficking from Afghanistan to Western countries. There is a strong correlation between the volume of drug trafficking and the number of drug addicts in Kyrgyzstan. There are an estimated 6,000 drug addicts in Kyrgyzstan, most of whom use opium.
KAZAKHSTAN-XINJIANG PIPELINE--ON HOLD FOREVER?
By Dr. Robert M. Cutler (2/2/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In mid-1997, China signed a contract to construct a 2,000-mile pipeline from Atyrau on the Caspian Sea to Urumchi, the capital of Xinjiang. The project was put on hold after the bottom dropped out of the oil market last year, but when President Nazarbaev met with Chinese officials last month they discussed kick-starting it again. Perhaps the greatest impediments to construction are socio-political ones.
BIBI-ANA: NGO FOR DISABLED SINGLE MOTHERS IN KAZAKHSTAN
By Marat Yermukanov is a correspondent for the Petropavlosk city funded newspaper "Tribuna" a (2/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Deteriorating living standards and the elimination of basic social privileges provided by the Kazakhstan government has turned the disabled into the most disadvantaged stratum of society. The inability of the local government to keep pace with the growing needs of the region’s more than 17,000 disabled people has forced the disable to form non-governmental organizations and take vital social issues into their own hands.
The regional association of disabled single mothers, Bibi-Ana, was founded in the Northern Kazakhstan regional capital of Petropavlosk in 1998 to obtain access to health care, public transportation and children’s education.
TAJIKISTAN’S YOUTH ECOLOGICAL CENTER: ECOLOGY, DEMOCRACY, BUSINESS
By Sergei Vorsin, Youth Ecological Center (2/16/2000 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Youth Ecological Center (YEC) was founded in 1993 as a union of youth, scientists, and teachers for the ecological education of the general population and the distribution of independent social/ecological information. In 1995, the YEC succeeded in organizing the first Tajik collective communication and information unit with the assistance of ISAR/USAID and the American NGO called The Sacred Earth Network. YEC was also involved in the creation and development of the first independent NGOs in Tajikistan.
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