Beimun+XVIII

TAJIKISTAN


 * Name || Forum || Topic || Draft Resolutions || Draft Speeches ||
 * Maaike || APQAP || Question of Afghanistan and Pakistan ||  || [[file:opening speech.odt]] ||
 * Shaun || GA2 || Financial assistance for Less Developed Countries that have to deal with natural catastrophes. || [[file:BEIMUN resolution (Mar. 1) - Tajikistan.docx]] || [[file:BEIMUN Tajikistan Opening Speech (Mar. 9) - Draft.docx]] ||
 * Maddie || GA3 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Iikka || SC 1 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Carolin || SC2 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Isaac || GA 1 ||  || [[file:Resoloution for BEIMUN..pages]] ||   ||

Topics can be found at...


 * http://beimun.net/topics.html

Resources that we have found for Tajikistan... info on the northern distribution network which runs through Tajikistan http://csis.org/program/northern-distribution-network-ndn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12215145

Tajikistan's main exports are cotton, alunium and Uranium. Uranium is the key component to making one of the most known WMD's; a nuclear bomb

Tajikistan has many problems along its 800 mile border with Afghanistan. It's the first stop on the drug trafficking chain from Afghanistan to Russia and the West. Also, it has problems with Al-Quada affiliated Islam extremist groups. As unemployment and poverty rise, it is worried that young Tajiks might become enticed to become part of Islamist movements. Tajikistan also has recently signed a deal with Russia to allow a base. The Northern Distribution Network, which runs through Central Asia so also through Tajikistan, is a way for US to supply equipment and men to Afghanistan.

Only one fourth of the girls in Tajikistan finished primary school. Primary education is required, but gender discrimination and poverty are the reason why a lot of people still do not finish primary school. Women have very few rights. Under the Soviet system women enjoyed equal civic rights as men. Tajik women the high and political representation was higher than in most western European countries.

Tajikistan is a major transit country for the Afghan narcotics bound for Russia and Wester Europe. Seizure of opiates through Tajikistan is very high, but the country is also a significant consumer of opiates. There is also limited illicit cultivation of opium for domestic use.  Tajikistan has a problem with human trafficking as well. Tajikstan is a source country for women transported for commercial sexual exploitation. Men and children of both sexes are trafficked for forced labor and begging.

 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ti.html