Uzbek Forum on Access to Remedy and the Shrinking Civic Space in Uzbekistan
Panel Discussion at the Second UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Nov. 2021)
On November 12, 2021, Umida Niyazova, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights Director participated on a panel discussion about the need for robust mechanisms to provide Uzbek cotton workers with access to remedy, and the importance of independent trade unions, independent NGOs, and independent journalists in developing and operating such mechanisms.
PROGRAMME DAY 2, 12 NOVEMBER 2021
Session V - Access to Remedy and Shrinking Civic Space
The session will allow participants to reflect on measures to protect human rights defenders facing reprisal and intimidation for their efforts to provide victims of business-related abuses in the region with a remedy. The focus will be on the shrinking civic space impacting those seeking to shine a spotlight on human rights abuses by businesses. The tools and measures that promote effective State-based judicial mechanisms, State-based non-judicial grievance mechanisms, and non-State-based grievance mechanisms to business-related human rights abuses will also be reviewed and discussed.
Moderator
Luis Rodriguez-Pinero Royo, Human Rights Officer, OHCHR
Presenters
Sergey Solyanik, Consultant, Crude Accountability, Kazakhstan
Umida Niyazova, Executive Director, Uzbek Forum for Human Rights, Uzbekistan
Nodira Abdulloeva, Human Rights Center, Tajikistan
Victoria Marquez-Mees, Chief Accountability Officer & Managing Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Yan Feldman, President, Council for Preventing and Eliminating Discrimination and Ensuring Equality, Moldova
Recordings of the other panel discussions on Day 1 and Day 2 of the Forum are available here.
