EU/Central Asia: Deepening Ties Should Center Human Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Officials from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan attend the meeting of Foreign Ministers of Central Asia and the European Union in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, November 17, 2022. © 2022 Photo by Bahtiyar Abdulkerimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (Brussels, March 27, 2025) – The European Union should put human rights at the center of its intensifying engagement with Central Asian countries at the inaugural EU-Central Asia summit on April 3 and 4, 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today. The…

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