Between 2025 and 2028 Uzbekistan will have a representative at the United Nations Human Rights Committee for the first time in its history, the academic and activist Akmal Saidov. This was reported by the "Dunyo" website, according to which the election took place at the Glass Palace on the occasion of the 40th session of the States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Competing for the Committee's nine seats were representatives of 16 countries, including Burundi, Georgia, Egypt, India, Spain, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, Morocco, Paraguay, South Korea, North Macedonia, Togo, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Ethiopia and South Africa. Before Saidov's election, the entire Central Asian region had never had a representative on the Human Rights Committee, a body that meets three times a year for four-week sessions (in spring in New York, in summer and autumn in Geneva).