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Tajikistan:
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Other pages in this profile of Tajikistan:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Communications & Transportation,
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Military branches |
Definition Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Mobile Force (2008) |
Military service age and obligation |
Definition 18 years of age for compulsory military service; 2-year conscript service obligation (2006) |
Manpower available for military service |
Definition males age 16-49: 1,897,356 females age 16-49: 1,911,594 (2008 est.) |
Manpower fit for military service |
Definition - World rank and map males age 16-49: 1,391,287 females age 16-49: 1,561,826 (2008 est.) |
Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually |
Definition males age 16-49: 84,137 females age 16-49: 81,777 (2008 est.) |
Military expenditures - percent of GDP |
Definition - World rank and map 3.9% (2005 est.) |
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Disputes - international |
Definition in 2006, China and Tajikistan pledged to commence demarcation of the revised boundary agreed to in the delimitation of 2002; talks continue with Uzbekistan to delimit border and remove minefields; disputes in Isfara Valley delay delimitation with Kyrgyzstan |
Trafficking in persons |
Definition current situation: Tajikistan is a source country for women trafficked through Kyrgyzstan and Russia to the UAE, Turkey, and Russia for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation; men are trafficked to Russia and Kazakhstan for the purpose of forced labor, primarily in the construction and agricultural industries; boys and girls are trafficked internally for various purposes, including forced labor and forced begging tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Tajikistan is on the Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking, especially efforts to investigate, prosecute, convict, and sentence traffickers; despite evidence of low- and mid-level officials' complicity in trafficking, the government did not punish any public officials for trafficking complicity during 2007; lack of capacity and poor coordination between government institutions remained key obstacles to effective anti-trafficking efforts (2008) |
Illicit drugs |
Definition major transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets; limited illicit cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption; Tajikistan seizes roughly 80% of all drugs captured in Central Asia and stands third worldwide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium); significant consumer of opiates |
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