(Berlin, June 24, 2025) – A woman from western Kazakhstan who experienced two decades of severe domestic abuse by her former husband is to be retried for allegedly conspiring to murder him, Human ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- On the surface, it might seem like Kazakh officials are responding busily to the most high-profile incident of spousal murder in the country's history. In the capital, Astana, ...

Women in Kazakhstan too often face injury or even death, as in Saltanat’s case, because of the authorities’ failure to uphold their rights and adequately protect them from abuse. The public has done ...

A high-profile trial in Kazakhstan is highlighting the entrenched problem of domestic violence in the country. The court proceedings against former Minister of Economy Kuandyk Bishimbayev are being ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since it declared independence from Moscow in 1991, the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has embarked on a journey to redefine its multiethnic and multilingual identity, away from imposed Soviet ...