Why Is Myanmar’s Military Bothering to Hold an Election? Despite vows by Kazakhstan’s leadership to make women safer, traditional gender roles are continuously reinforced, creating harmful conditions ...

Amid the more than 160 reported deaths and 12,000 arrests recently in Kazakhstan, one group was conspicuously missing from the chaotic protests—women. The complete absence of women from protests in ...

Just in time for International Women’s Day, ForteBank is launching a campaign to help promote female entrepreneurship which isn’t terribly unusual, except it’s in Kazakhstan. Discussing women’s rights ...

Following its independence in 1991, Kazakhstan moved toward a market economy, and it has been developing rapidly ever since, due in large part to considerable foreign investment. Official statistics ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called for due process and fairness in the case of Dinara Smailova, a prominent women’s rights advocate in Kazakhstan. HRW expressed concerns that the charges ...

(Berlin, March 7, 2023) – Kazakhstan should ensure that draft laws relating to domestic violence provide maximum protection for women from family violence, including by criminalizing domestic violence ...

Kazakhstan's Interior Ministry on December 27 added to its wanted list Dinara Smailova, the self-exiled leader of the NeMolchiKZ group, which monitors domestic violence cases in the Central Asian ...

Update: In an online hearing on April 7, an appeals court in Kazakhstan upheld the lower court’s ruling penalizing the Women’s Day march activists with administrative fines. On April 8, parliament ...

How many people each year fall victim to human trafficking is of course hard to gauge. But the International Organization for Migration believes a growing number of Central Asians are being trafficked ...

Female activists in four major cities in Kazakhstan have taken to the streets to protest the government’s ongoing program to gradually raise the retirement age for women in the Central Asian nation.