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 ...

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

According to the Kyrgyz constitution, polygamy - the practice of marrying more than one woman - is restricted in the central Asian country of approximately six million citizens, most of whom are ...

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 ...

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, ...

difficult weather conditions - all this resulted in a great experience for the women. Alexander Block is located in Laylak Gorge, in the Turkestan range of the Pamir-Alay, Kyrgyzstan. There are no ...

Labrys, a Kyrgyzstan non-governmental organization working with lesbian and bisexual women and transgender men, provided regular assistance. The report was edited by Scott Long, director of the ...