Although the protests were small in scale, activists continue to make strident pleas for President Japarov to address the plight of women and girls in Kyrgyzstan. The gender quota in local ...

AKIPRESS.COM - Some 7,900 crimes against women were committed in January-September 2024, according to the National ...

A feminist art exhibition involving naked women in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek has ignited a public row that's cost the director of the venue her job. The culture ministry condemned the event for ...

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan—Despite being forcibly repatriated from this central Asian nation, Kyushu native Misuzu Ogata returned to her “second home” here to promote the country’s culture to ...

In its concluding comments on Kyrgyzstan in 1999, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women condemned reports that lesbians were subject to punishment in Kyrgyzstan, ...

and the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the Women Entrepreneurs (WE) Finance Code, Trend reports via the EBRD. On the sidelines of the World Bank ...