Disability in Uzbekistan

How accessible are public services to disabled people in Tashkent city? Monitoring visits and photographs. (2024, Dilmurad Yusupov)

They don't need your charity, give them their rights! Critique of turning international day for persons with disabilities into a holiday:

‘“It just pisses me off when they make a holiday out of this day. They set tables, organise concerts, etc. On this day it would be good to demonstrate our achievements in the field of protecting the rights of people with disabilities,” says Natalia Plotnikova, head of the public association of women with disabilities “Opa-singillar” (“Sisters”).’ (2024, Dilmurad Yusupov)

Dreaming beyond the impossible: A story of disability rights activism in Uzbekistan. (2023, UNSDG)

Climate change highlights the need for disability-inclusive adaptation (2023, World Bank)

Research

Layers and Ranges of Disabling Borders A chapter exploring enduring legacies of segregation and ableism in the socio-politics of disability in Uzbekistan. (2022, Invisible Borders in a Bordered World)

Social Protection

Analysis of the state system in Uzbekistan to promote an integrated approach in employment and welfare services delivery for persons with disabilities:

“the report identifies key challenges, such as the lack of coordination between social and employment services, and proposes four key intervention areas: targeted employment programs, comprehensive and well-coordinated programs, partnership between actors, and [Integrated Case Management] for persons with disabilities.” (2024, UNDP)

NGO Helps Pioneer Disability-Inclusive Employment “In 2021, the team launched the job-searching website IshPlus.uz. Within a year, the project successfully assisted 50 individuals with disabilities to secure employment.” (2023, Eurasia Foundation)

Barriers to disability-inclusive employment: A pilot qualitative study of disabled people's lived experiences. “The current institutional and policy framework is rooted in the Soviet legacies of disability assessment which conflates disability with the loss of working capacity.” (2022, Journal of International Development)

Conditions in Institutions

A woman with mental disabilities was bullied and abused in Syrdarya

“The unnamed woman with a mental disability lives in a women’s specialised boarding house for people with disabilities in Syrdarya. Such special boarding schools for disabled people are closed institutions, and it is difficult to get any information from there. But these days it’s so easy for videos to go viral in social media.” (2024, Dilmurad Yusupov)

Inaccessible public transportation a video of a wheelchair user not managing to get on buses explained on twitter. (in Uzbek, no subtitles, 2022)

The law about us is being passed without us: how amendments to disability legislation were developed without participation of people with disabilities. (In Russian, 2024, Gazeta)

Situation Analysis of the rights of persons with disabilities. (2022, UNPRPD)