Status of Muslim Women in Uzbekistan: Challenges and Prospects

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and subsequent independence of the Central Asian republics brought many potential changes in the region of which Islamic revivalism and market economy are significant as these changes have direct repercussion on the people s life. Uzbekistan's post-Soviet development, like that in most of the former Soviet Union, has entailed enormous and disproportionate obstacles to women's realization of their human rights. During the past ten years, Uzbekistan's government has attempted to institute some safeguards for women's rights, mainly in the area of social welfare support. This work significantly focus on the Islamic revivalism and its impact on muslim women and also analyses how Uzbek society responds to the unintended changes.

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Md.Kashif Imam is an Adjunct Faculty at National Institute of Rural Development,(Ministry of Rural Development,Government of India).He is the course Director of Gender Mainstreaming in Rural Development at NIRD-Jaipur Centre. He did his Masters in Sociology,and pursuing PhD on comparative study of women in Uzbekistan and India from JNU, New Delhi.