Steve Swerdlow

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Steve Swerdlow, Esq. is a human rights lawyer and Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights in the Department of Political and International Relations at the University of Southern California. A human rights lawyer and expert on the former Soviet region, he teaches international human rights law, human rights research and advocacy, and human rights in Eurasia. Swerdlow was a Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch from 2010-2019, founding its Kyrgyzstan field office and was earlier based in Kazakhstan. Swerdlow has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and International Organization for Migration (IOM). He regularly publishes on human rights issues in Eurasia and US foreign policy.

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Crackdown on Pamiris in Tajikistan: Domestic, Regional, and Geopolitical Contexts

Thursday, December 15, 2022
9:30 to 10:30am EST

Online

The ongoing crackdown in Gorno-Badakhshan against the Pamiri Ismailis is the longest-running intra-state conflict and crackdown in Central Asia since the Tajik Civil War ended in 1997. The panel will discuss the causes behind the crackdown and potential trajectories of Tajikistan’s political development by examining the domestic, regional, and geopolitical contexts.

Recording Available

Bruce Pannier

Correspondent, RFE/RL

Steve Swerdlow

Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, University of Southern California

Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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