Publication

This report charts the status of verifiable security sector reform (SSR) legislation in four Central Asian states – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In the first case, Kazakhstan’s open sources offer the most comprehensive overview of the legislation adopted between 2005 and 2011. Kyrgyzstan's resources are accessible as well, but following the violent regime change in April 2010 and the ethnic violence that followed in June, the country’s parliament and government have started revising many of the laws linked to the Interior Ministry and Judicial sector. Finally, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have only few pieces of legislation that are actually available to the public.