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When Security Threatens Human Rights: Reviewing the Case of Central Asia

In: Security and Human Rights
Author:
Vera Axyonova Researcher, Centre for Intercultural and European Studies ( cinteus), Fulda University of Applied Sciences Associate Researcher, Europe-Central Asia Monitoring ( eucam) programme

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01 Jan 2013
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On joining the OSCE, states undertake comprehensive human-rights commitments. How have the states of Central Asia, whose regimes are not known for their progressive character in such matters, balanced concerns for security with human rights? The paper examines four incidents of human-rights abuses by state security forces. It further critically considers the efforts of the EU and the OSCE to pursue a security agenda while also promoting human rights in Central Asia; the latter have often suffered at the hands of the former. This looks set to continue as the focus on “hard security” issues remains.

Title:
When Security Threatens Human Rights: Reviewing the Case of Central Asia
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/18750230-02402007
Language:
English
Pages:
159–168
Keywords:
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); Central Asian States of the former Soviet Union; human rights violations; European Union; security sector reform; perceptions of threat (security policy); foreign policies of groups of states
In:
Security and Human Rights
In:
Volume 24: Issue 2
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
E-ISSN:
1875-0230
Print ISSN:
1874-7337
Subjects:
Human Rights, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Humanitarian Law

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