Landmark buildings across Kazakhstan were lit up in orange to mark the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence ...

(Berlin, February 5, 2023) – Kazakhstan authorities should guarantee that they are not targeting a well-known women’s rights advocate with criminal charges in retaliation for her work, Human Rights ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - The trial of a former government minister charged with beating his wife to death has gripped public attention in Kazakhstan, and some see it as a litmus test of President ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- This wasn’t the picture that most people associate with domestic violence. The suspect: a boyish-looking 43-year-old who was once the country’s youngest-ever minister and who ...

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 ...

(Almaty) – Almaty city authorities’ denial of a permit for a women’s rights march on March 8, 2022, demonstrates the authorities’ indifference to women’s rights, including a serious domestic violence ...

Amid the struggles of Kazakhstan’s Uyghur community to preserve cultural traditions, weddings have endured as one of the few ...

People, including activists of Zhana Adamdar (New People) youth movement, hold a rally under the slogan "Say no to the beast world" to support women's rights and to condemn gender-based domestic ...

Kazakhstan’s BeWoman Asia 2025 Forum explored the importance of supporting women and its role in building stronger, healthier, and more progressive societies. When women are empowered, they don’t just ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper addresses how changing patterns of conjugality, family and labour play out in a gender-mixed, multi-ethnic industrial setting built ...

Trial of ex-minister draws strong public attention Case highlights injustice suffered by women, say activists President Tokayev has promised a fairer society New bill would re-criminalise domestic ...