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| | Uzbekistan: Sacrificing Women To Save The Family? - State Response to Violence Against Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Finally, the 1999 law requires that the mahalla committees "take measures directed towards protecting the interests of women, raising their role in social life, in forming the spiritual-moral atmosphere of families and the education of the young generation." |
 | | In practice, this provision is carried out through the direct intervention of the mahalla chairman, the chairman of the village council (selsovet) or former kolkhoz rais, and the mahalla committee in regulating family conflicts, including those involving domestic violence. |
 | | Although members of the official women's committees asserted that "No women, particularly Uzbek women, would go to a man to talk about these problems," Human Rights Watch found that in the eight rural districts studied, women tended to appeal directly to the chief authority figure, usually, although not always, a man. |
| www.hrw.org /reports/2001/uzbekistan/Uzbek0701-04.htm (17527 words) |
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