What is CDU?
CDU-The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan is a nonprofit and international organization, which unites hundreds of democratic
activists in Uzbekistan and has thousands of supporters in the country and many dozens of members in the US and Europe,
advances freedom in Uzbekistan by promoting democracy and unmasking a totalitarian regime.
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan is a dictatorship country and all of the democratic organizations have been shut down, well known democrats are in jail
and the media is under control of the dictator regime. The dictator and his media are publishing articles against United States,
democracy and Western countries. Uzbek people have access to only the Russian media, thus limiting ways of obtaining the truth.
The Uzbek government has been telling the people that dictatorship is democracy and people have started to believe in this
because they do not have access to any contradicting information. Under the pressure of political, economical and cultural
problems people are not able to make intellectual decisions.
When was CDU established?
The Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan (CDU), after bringing together on July 10 2005 major leaders of the Uzbek pro-democracy
opposition for the their first historical meeting in more than a decade, hold its next own gathering on September 25 and The
Congress of Democratic Uzbekistan fully established as international nonprofit organization.
What type of work does CDU do?
-Organize conferences or meetings and invite young democrats from Uzbekistan to discuss promoting democracy. The
conferences will take place in United States and in Central Asian Republics.
- Establish trainings for Democrats on how to create political parties, how to create the human rights organizations and how to work
with them.
- Print electronic media programs, especially RFE/RL, VOA, BBC Uzbek Services and analyzing how they are promoting democratic
values.
- Analyze corruption and publish reports.
-Produce documentary films.
-Publishing books.
-Organize concerts and cultural events.
- Establish list of political prisoners in Uzbekistan, information about torture in prisons and decisions of “kangaroo court” of
Uzbekistan.
-Deliver movies to Uzbek democratic opposition organizations which analyze democracy and show how to build a democratic
society.
-Organize meetings with democratic political leaders, poets, writers, authors, and take, record and publish the interviews.
- Organize research on problems Uzbek refugees in US, Canada, and other countries face, and help them with their social and
cultural issues.
-Organize charity events, gatherings, and donate these funds to other charities in Uzbekistan.
- Continue to publish the website www.uzbekcongress.org , www.jahongir.org and online political magazine “Turonzamin”Eurasia),
where all of the material are towards promoting democracy, and building democratic society.
- Publishing digests newspaper where articles are from the US newspapers or the US media which explain democratic values and
show to the achievements of America to the world.
-Bring together the Uzbek Americans, Uzbek students studying in US, and focus their power in promoting democracy.
- Open educational schools, TV and radio.
-Organize conferences on women rights, trafficking, and child labor. Prepare and publish reports and books on human rights,
women problems, trafficking, and child labor in Uzbekistan.
-Creating books: “The friends of Democracy in Uzbekistan” and “The enemies of Democracy Uzbekistan”.


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