Representatives from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, along with officials from internal affairs, judiciary, probation and child and women’s rights protection institutions as well as international experts, exchanged experiences on national legislation, risk assessment, and correctional programs for perpetrators of family violence. The event emphasized international standards, digital tools, and inter-agency cooperation, highlighting the need for systemic, coordinated efforts to protect victims and hold offenders accountable.

The Tashkent Law Spring Forum brings together leading lawyers, scientists, IT specialists, experts and business representatives creating a space for dialogue and finding solutions to modern day challenges. This year’s focus was the legal architecture of the digital world. In cooperation with the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Fundamental and Human Rights participated as an organizer of the event as part of the project “Supporting Justice Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic: Promoting Probation and Integrated Justice Information Management (JUST4ALL)”.

The project “Supporting Justice Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic: Promoting Probation and Integrated Justice Information Management (JUST4ALL)” is a four-year project co-funded by the European Union and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and implemented by the UNODC in partnership with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights (LBI-GMR). It promotes the humanisation of the criminal justice system in the Kyrgyz Republic and aims to improve the country’s capacity to implement its criminal justice reforms in line with international standards and norms as well as European best practices. The two main components of the project concern the following areas of criminal justice reform: probation and information management.