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Social / CSR in Uzbekistan

  • Information products for children to be age-rated in Uzbekistan

    UZBEKISTAN, 2017/08/26 The Senate (upper home) of the Uzbek Parliament approved the law “On protecting children from data harmful to their health” on August 24, Trend’s correspondent reported from the Senate conference. According to the law approved by the senators, hereafter, data products will be labeled according to age categories (7, 12, 16 and 18), this is while some products will be labeled as prohibited for distribution part children.
  • Uzbekistan improves working conditions

    UZBEKISTAN, 2015/04/25 Uzbekistan continues to work on improving national legislation and promotion of international standards of decent work, inclunding the provision of supportive and safe working conditions, expansion of social protection, strengthening of social control and social partnership in guaranteeing the rights to decent working conditions. These provisions have been formulated following the international conference“The role of trade unions in ensuring citizens' rights to decent working conditions: the experience of Uzbekistan” held in Tashkent on April 22-23. The aim of the international conference is to study international experience, inclunding the experience of Uzbekistan, in the development and implementation of measures aimed at ensuring the reliable protection of citizens' rights to decent working conditions.
  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
  • Uzbekistan, Spain ink memo on regular political consultations

    UZBEKISTAN, 2014/04/22 Uzbekistan and Spain have signed a memorandum of cooperation program between the foreign ministries of the two nations for 2014-2016. The document was unedrsigned by Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Jose Manuel Garcia-Margalit, who paid an official visit to Tashkent, and Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov on April 21. The document primarily envisages holding of the regular political consultations between Uzbekistan and Spain. During the talks the sides exchanged views on a whole range of bilateral relations, inclunding on issues of international and regional security, inclunding the situation in Afghanistan.