Despite vows by Kazakhstan’s leadership to make women safer, traditional gender roles are continuously reinforced, creating harmful conditions for women. These gender roles are also echoed by the ...

The exhibition “Tirek — The Thread of Her Life,” organized within the UN Women regional program in partnership with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

The British Netflix drama Adolescence broke global viewing records and ignited fierce debate about digital safety. It struck ...

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 ...

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 ...

A training seminar held this week by feminists and LGBT activists in a mining city in central Kazakhstan might have ended in violence but for the intervention of police. A group of activist trainers ...

When the local government of Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, authorized a march organized by several feminist collectives, observers rubbed their eyes, surprised: It was the first time in the ...

WIMBLEDON, England — Too nervous to wave, Elena Rybakina stepped into the Centre Court sunshine before the Wimbledon final Saturday and kept a firm double-grip on the black-and-red straps of the ...