Jacob MacCarter
Kyrgyzstan is a poor country situated near mountains. It’s rural economy represented by minerals recovery and money transmission from citizens who live abroad. Wool, cotton and meat are the basic agricultural products. Cotton is the main product to export abroad. Also country export gold, mercury, natural gas, uranium.
After getting independence, Kyrgyzstan speedily provided market reforms, such as developing the control system and instituting land reform. Kyrgyzstan was the first Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) country to be taken into the World Trade Organization.
Kyrgyz leaders to gained Eurasian Economic Union with bolster trade and investment, but slowing economies in Russia and China, low commodity prices, and currency fluctuations continue to hamper economic growth. The clues to future increase include reforms in fighting corruption, improving administrative transparency, restructuring internal market, and attracting foreign help and investment.
Unreasonable human rights violation and new setbacks damaged Kyrgyzstan’s rights record in 2015. Government targeted and troubled some human rights groups, journalists, and lawyers. Impunity for ill-treatment and torture keep, and there is still no justice for victims of interethnic force in 2010. Human rights lawyer Azimjon Askarov is still wrongfully serving a life prison sentence. Home violence against women and girls is common, and multiple barriers prevent survivors from accessing aid or justice.
Kyrgyzstan took parliamentary elections in October, which international observers found to be “competitive.” In August, Kyrgyzstan became a part of the Eurasian Economic Union, a market for five Eurasian countries, led by Russia.
The year 2014 witnessed a problematic trend in Kyrgyzstan because the authorities continued to collapsed to consolidate important political and civil rights many had expect would follow the 2010 constitutional transformations and modification of government. In March 2014, the ruling coalition failed, leading to the resignation of the administration among corruption allegations and failure to arrange a new agreement with the abroad biggest investor of country.
As Kyrgyzstan wanted to gain the Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union, it gave running of its state natural gas utility to Russia’s Gazprom, motivating Uzbekistan to terminate convention on transit of natural gas to southern Kyrgyzstan and leaving the region without gas or heat for most of the year.
Torture, ill-treatment and impunity for are commonplace phenomenon. Although introduced in late 2014 surveillance program places restrictions and imprisonment under national Preventive Mechanism, as well as the Ministry of Health instructions to health workers documenting torture, which is based on the United Nations Guide Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
According to research of Freedom house press status in Kyrgyzstan is PARTLY FREE.This country has the next results (data for 2015 year):
1. Freedom rating – 5 (7 is the worst).
2. Civil liberties -5 (7 is the worst).
3. Political rights -5 (7 is the worst).