ALIGARH, Aug. 1 -- Legal Rights of the Vulnerable Population in the Post-Soviet Era: What Central Asia can Learn from India" at a Two-Day National Seminar on "The Political Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy: State, Society and Cultural Economic Relations with Central Asia," organised by the Centre of Central Asian Studies, University of Kashmir, Hazratbal, Srinagar.
Dr. Shabbir discussed the challenges faced by Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in protecting the rights of vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities, women and children, rural and nomadic communities, and persons with disabilities, following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. He suggested that India's socio-legal frame...