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Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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33 %
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[33rd of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights
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20 %
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[20th of 39]
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Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint
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29 %
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[29th of 39]
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Executions
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31 executions |
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[31st of 33]
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Illicit drugs
transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets; limited illicit cultivation of cannabis and small amounts of opium poppy for domestic consumption; poppy cultivation almost wiped out by government crop eradication program; transit point for heroin precursor chemicals bound for Afghanistan |
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Managers finding crime a restraint
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22% |
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[22nd of 0]
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Murders committed by youths
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19 |
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[19th of 73]
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Murders committed by youths per capita
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34 |
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[34th of 0]
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Prisoners
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29 prisoners |
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[29th of 164]
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Prisoners > Per capita
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41 per 100,000 people |
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[41st of 164]
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Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees
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128% |
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[128th of 143]
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Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled
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70% |
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[70th of 128]
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Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Uzbekistan is a source and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women trafficked to Asia and the Middle East for the purpose of sexual exploitation; women from other Central Asian countries and China are trafficked through Uzbekistan; men are trafficked for purposes of forced labor in the construction and agricultural industries to Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan; men and women are also trafficked within the country |
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 3 - Uzbekistan is placed on Tier 3 because it failed to fulfill commitments by the country to take additional steps during 2005, including the adoption of comprehensive anti-trafficking legislation, criminal code amendments to raise trafficking penalties, support to the country's first trafficking shelter, and approval of a national action plan |
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SOURCES: Corruption measures the share of senior managers who ranked corruption as a major or very severe constraint.; Lack confidence that courts uphold property rights is the share of senior managers who do not agree with the statement: I am confident that the judicial system will enforce my contractual and property rights in business disputes.; Courts measure the share of senior managers who ranked courts and dispute resolution systems as a major or very severe constraint.; Number of known executions in the country (Data is for 1998). Because these figures include only documented cases; the true figures are likely to be much higher.; Crime statistics are often better indicators of prevalence of law enforcement and willingness to report crime, than actual prevalence.
; Crime measures the share of senior managers who ranked crime, theft, and disorder as a major or very severe constraint.; Homicide rates among youths aged 10–29 years by country or area: most recent year available (variable 1990–1999).; Homicide rate per 100,000 population aged 10–29 years; Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held. Different reporting practices mean that that statistics, whilst broadly correct, are not exact. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reporst that a further 110,284 juveniles were held in custodial institutions at October 2000 and a further 1,912 in 'jails in Indian country' at 30.6.2001.; Data for 2003. Number of prisoners held per 100,000 population.; The percentage of the prison population that is being held pre-trial / on remand. Data for 2003.; The percentage of the offical prison capacity filled. This is obtained by comparing the number of prisoners in a nation to the offical capacity of the nation's prison system. Data for 2003.; Trafficking in persons is modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded, or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. The International Labor Organization (ILO), the UN agency charged with addressing labor standards, employment, and social protection issues, estimates that 12.3 million people worldwide are enslaved in forced labor, bonded labor, forced child labor, sexual servitude, and involuntary servitude at any given time. Human trafficking is a multi-dimensional threat, depriving people of their human rights and freedoms, risking global health, promoting social breakdown, inhibiting development by depriving countries of their human capital, and helping fuel the growth of organized crime. In 2000, the US Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), reauthorized in 2003 and 2005, which provides tools for the US to combat trafficking in persons, both domestically and abroad. One of the law's key components is the creation of the US Department of State's annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses the government response in some 150 countries with a significant number of victims trafficked across their borders who are recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained for forced labor or sexual exploitation. Countries in the annual report are rated in three tiers, based on government efforts to combat trafficking. The countries identified in this entry are those listed in the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report as Tier 2 Watch List or Tier 3 based on the following definitions:
Tier 2 Watch List countries do not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but are making significant efforts to do so, and meet one of the following criteria:
1. they display a high or significantly increasing number victims,
2. they have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or,
3. they have committed to take action over the next year.
Tier 3 countries neither satisfy the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor demonstrate a significant effort to do so. Countries in this tier are subject to potential non-humanitarian and non-trade sanctions.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Uzbekistan, Republic of Uzbekistan, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, Ozbekiston
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