Tajikistan

Population Statistics

8,191,958

Total Population

1,228,794

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

Tajikistan has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan (1994, last amended 2003)

Updated: June 2015

Article 17 states:

All people shall be equal before the law and the court of law. The state shall guarantee the rights and liberties for every person irrespective of his nationality, race, sex, language, religious beliefs, political persuasion, knowledge, social and property status. Men and women shall have equal rights.

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan (1994, last amended 2003)

On the Election of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (1994, last amended 2006)

Updated: June 2015

Article 30 states:

...In cases when some voters due to the health or other conditions cannot come to the polling premises, the polling station commission by their request shall commission at least two commission members to organize voting at their homes...

 

Excerpt from the Constitutional Law On the Election of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan (1994, amended 2006)

On Elections to the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan (1999, last amended 2004)

Updated: June 2015

Article 42 states:

...If some voters are not able to come to the premises for voting due to their disease or other reasons, at their request the polling station commission charges special members of the commission to conduct the voting at the place of residence of these voters at presence of observers and trusted persons and a note about it will be made in the list of voters...

 

Excerpt from the Constitutional Law on Elections to the Majlisi Oli of the Republic of Tajikistan (1999, last amended 2004)