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Author: Tajikistan. Drug Control Agency

Title: Report on the Drug Situation in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2009.

Summary: This report presents an analysis of illegal drug situation in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, a description of the criminal market for narcotic drugs in the area, and efforts to combat illegal drug trafficking in Tajikistan and the surrounding area.

Details: Dushanbe: Tajikistan Drug Control Agency, 2009. 49p.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2009

Country: Tajikistan

Keywords: Drug Trafficking

Shelf Number: 119121


Author: Latypov, Alisher

Title: Drug Dealers, Drug Lords and Drug Warriors-cum-Traffickers: Drug Crime and the Narcotics Market in Tajikistan

Summary: This report presents research on the role played by the police, petty drug dealers and users in the street level drug trade in Tajikistan. Synthesizing information received from interviews with individual Tajik drug users, annual reports from the Tajik Drug Control Agency as well as lesser- known studies by local researchers, the study brings to light a number of interesting details of the street level drug trade in Tajikistan and discusses their implications for drug policies in the region as a whole. The main findings are: 1. the drug trade is evolving and becoming more mobile whereby cellular communications are used to arrange meetings or direct delivery of drugs to one’s home by the dealer in lieu of the previous practice of using specially-designated apartments or homes for the sale/purchase of drugs; 2.there is an emerging tendency amongst dealers to have purchasers transfer money to their bank accounts to facilitate larger drug sales; 3.heroin in Tajikistan is now more widely available, easier to acquire and of higher quality – all of which is consistent with changes in the prices of high purity heroin in the country in recent years; 4.the current situation in those towns bordering Afghanistan indicates a strong correlation between HIV risk behaviors and expanding HIV epidemics among injecting drug users; 5.new types of drugs like pill-form methadone from Iran and cocaine and ecstasy from China and Russia are available on the drug markets in Tajikistan, with the latter becoming especially popular in night clubs frequented by Tajik youth; 6.the Tajik drug market is being connected to drug markets in other countries through new routes between Tajikistan and China, with drugs moving in both directions, and Tajikistan and Iran. This research likewise illustrates the shocking state of corruption in Tajik law enforcement agencies and penitentiary facilities whereby police and prison officers directly facilitate the distribution of drugs. Law enforcement officials provide (confiscated) heroin to favored dealers, arrest or harass competing dealers and exploit drug users in various ways for the sake of information, money or sexual favors. Drug users are also routinely arrested, often by planting evidence on them, to meet arbitrary quotas, which all but ensures that the activities of larger criminal and drug trafficking organizations will go on unimpeded. Moreover, while the analysis of data from the Tajik Drug Control Agency suggests that the volume of opiates coming to or transiting Tajikistan from Afghanistan might, on the whole, have diminished over the past few years, the reported decrease in opiate seizures appears to be misleading as corruption in law enforcement has kept the country awash in heroin and other drugs. To address these challenges, this study suggests stepping up state prosecution of corrupt police and corrections officers, re-visiting contemporary drug policies through the lens of human rights, introducing policies that discourage targeting and arresting drug users for the purpose of police performance assessment, and providing more harm reduction, drug treatment and legal aid opportunities to people who use drugs both in community and prison settings.

Details: Vilnius, Lithuania: Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, 2011. 23p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed on January 23, 2012 at http://idpc.net/sites/default/files/library/Drug_warriors_in_Takijistan_0.pdf

Year: 2011

Country: Tajikistan

Keywords: Drug Dealers

Shelf Number: 123749


Author: Huynh, Yoomie

Title: An Assessment of the Exploitation of Children and Students During the 2011 Cotton Harvest in Tajikistan

Summary: Combating human trafficking is a key priority for the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Trafficking in persons primarily involves exploitation, and as such, the use of child labour during the cotton harvest falls within the scope of IOM activities. As an intergovernmental body, IOM in collaboration with the Government of Tajikistan (GoT) has actively adopted effective measures to monitor the use of child labour during the cotton harvest. Such measures have included assisting the GoT in developing and implementing the National Action Plan on Combating Human Trafficking in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2011–2013 and conducting an annual monitoring and awareness campaign during the 2010 and 2011 cotton harvests. Table of Contents •Foreword •Executive summary •1. Introduction •2. Cotton monitoring project •3. Legal analysis on legislation pertaining to child labour rights •4.Monitoring results •5. Situational analysis of monitoring results •6. Recommendations •List of abbreviations and acronyms •Glossary •Figures, maps & tables

Details: Dushanbe, Tajikistan: International Organization for Migration, 2012. 49p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 6, 2013 at: http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/Cotton_MonitoringReport_04_09_2012.pdf

Year: 2012

Country: Tajikistan

Keywords: Child Exploitation

Shelf Number: 128297


Author: Danzer, Alexander M.

Title: Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Summary: This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently. We identify the wage pass-through by capitalizing on Tajikistan's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010/11 in two types of firms: randomly privatized small farms and not yet privatized parastatal farms, the latter of which command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas coerced workers of parastatal enterprises miss out. The results provide evidence for the political economy of labor coercion and for the dependence of the economic lives of many poor on the competitive structure of local labor markets.

Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016. 80p.

Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper no. 9971: Accessed June 8, 2016 at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp9971.pdf

Year: 2016

Country: Tajikistan

Keywords: Forced Labor

Shelf Number: 139316