The New Yorker has a profile of Paul Wolfowitz, erstwhile neocon and now President of the World Bank (but not for much longer, maybe …). Few people divide opinion quite like Wolfowitz, but he didn’t shy away from cutting off funds to Uzbekistan following Andijan (h/t: Oxblog). This was in line with his own […]

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Thinking-East in 2005.
Fardona (20, from Uzbekistan) tells us about her life — a life that is not easy, living in a country in which women’s rights are becoming ever more difficult to retain.
Although I am 20 years old and to some of you it may seem […]