DUSHANBE, August 6, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- A two-day seminar to discuss achievement and shortcomings of human rights in Tajikistan has been opened at the Kokhi Vahdat State Complex in Dushanbe today morning.

Staged by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan, Office of Tajikistan’s Human Rights Commissioner, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Danish Institute for Human Rights, the event has brought together representatives from a number of government bodies, and public associations dealing with human rights protection issues.

The meeting participants are discussing a number of legal aspects such as freedom of conscience, rights of labor migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities to property, fair trial, ecological rights, legal reform and judicial system reform, free and transparent elections, access to information, preventing violence against women, etc.

The seminar is a preparatory stage to the OSCE Annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting that will be held in Warsaw, Poland from September 28 to October 9 this year.