On December 28, 2023, in the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Message of the Founder of Peace and National Unity — Leader of the Nation, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, respected Emomali Rahmon, was delivered, in which the President declared 2024 as the "Year of Legal Education."
The purpose of this decree is to raise the level of legal literacy among citizens, promote democratic values, strengthen the institution of human rights and respectful attitudes towards it, enhance the authority of the law, foster citizens’ respect for the law and ensure the rule of law, establish a stable system of legal behavior, intolerance to any legal violations and responsibility for them, coordinate the activities of all entities involved in legal education, and organize an effective mechanism of cooperation between the state and civil society institutions in the field of legal education of citizens.
As President Emomali Rahmon emphasized:
“The development of a democratic, legal, and secular state largely depends on the level of knowledge and legal literacy of the population.”
To implement the directives contained in the President’s Message to the Supreme Assembly “On the main directions of the country’s domestic and foreign policy,” on December 30, 2023, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan signed Decree No. 668 “On proclaiming 2024 as the Year of Legal Education.” To ensure the practical implementation of this decree, seminars, round tables, and conferences are being held in all state institutions and organizations.
Within this framework, on May 23 of this year, at the initiative of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Tajikistan, with the participation of leaders and staff of its scientific institutions, a meeting dedicated to the announcement of 2024 as the “Year of Legal Education” took place.
The meeting was opened by the Vice-President of the Academy, Fayzullo Safar Amirshozoda, who noted that the declaration of the “Year of Legal Education” on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Constitution’s adoption is no coincidence, since the Constitution of independent Tajikistan, which laid the foundation for building a sovereign national state and the progress of all spheres of the nation’s life, is one of the most important achievements of the independence period.
Next, a report titled “Raising the Legal Literacy of Citizens” and measures to prevent factors of legal violations in the field of land relations was presented by respected Nazri Davlatsho Khimmatzoda, a representative of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Tajikistan.
