Twelve legal professionals are participating in the LEAD STEP program [8], in which they strengthen their legal English skills and complete coursework addressing the American justice system. The program will help prepare this cadre of talented professionals to strengthen the rule of law in Tajikistan. A brief snapshot of the fellows’ backgrounds is below:
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Husniddin Bozorov graduated from Tajik State National University in 2011 and has worked in the Sino District prosecution office in Dushanbe. | |
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Firuza Chorshanbieva graduated from Tajik State National University in 2011 and has since worked as an attorney for a local law firm in Dushanbe. | |
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Farrukhsho Dzhunaydov graduated from Tajik State National University in 1996 and has held positions as an Investigator to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Tajikistan, Legal Advisor for Internews Network, and, most recently, as the National Media Development Office for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). | |
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Mansur Ganiev graduated from Tajik State National University in 2007 and has since worked in the prosecutor’s office of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan. | |
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Dilnoza Khudobakhshova graduated from Tajik State National University in 2004 and has held positions as an analyst and professional trainer at the Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law and, most recently, as a strategic analyst for the Drug Control Agency of Tajikistan. | |
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Navruz Latipov graduated from Tajik State National University in 2009 and has since worked as a specialist in the Department of Legislation at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan. | |
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Sirodzhiddin Makhkambaev graduated from the Tajik State National University in 2006 and received his PhD in Law from the Peoples Friendship University of Russia in 2011. He has previously worked as an associate at a law firm in Tajikistan. | |
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Shakhnoz Mamadatoeva graduated from Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University in 2008 and has since worked as a legal advisor for a local bank in Tajikistan. | |
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Zulaykho Nabieva graduated from Tajik State National University in 2006 and has since worked in the Department of Legal Help at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan. | |
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Sherzod Nizamov graduated from Russian-Tajik Slavonic University in 2004 and has held positions as Legal Advisor for the Ministry of Defense and the National Guard of Tajikistan and, most recently, as a judge in the Ismoili Somoni district in Dushanbe. | |
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Romin Sadriddinov graduated from Tajik State National University in 2009 and has worked as an attorney for a law firm in Dushanbe. | |
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Manuchekhr Sharipov graduated from Tajik State National University in 2007 and has worked as a lawyer for the Presidium of the Bar of the Republic of Tajikistan. |
Publication Date:
March 16, 2012