Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...
Kyrgyzstan is the only country in Central Asia where the number of female migrant workers exceeds that of men, with a sizeable proportion of the women under the age of 20. But some politicians in the ...
Aizada Kanatbekova was abducted for marriage in a practice known as bride kidnapping on April 5 and found strangled two days ...
BISHKEK -- Hundreds of activists in Kyrgyzstan -- which the United Nations has chided for having issues with gender-based violence -- have rallied to demand equal rights for women as they mark ...
“[T]he death penalty is not the solution” to Kyrgyzstan’s gender-based violence problem, a group of human rights organizations argue. In the wake of yet another horrific murder of a young woman by a ...
Gulnaz Mamytbekova. Photo courtesy of the author. All rights reserved. Last Saturday, Gulnaz Mamytbekova, a nurse in the intensive care unit of her town’s children ...
A chartered plane flew into Kyrgyzstan from Syria last week carrying 59 Kyrgyz nationals in the latest phase on an ongoing mission to repatriate the families of militant fighters who enlisted in the ...
One woman’s battle to turn the tide against patriarchal norms in Kyrgyzstan has produced a mixed victory. In a ruling made public this week, the Constitutional Court decreed that citizens will be ...
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