Kyrgyzstan is the only country in Central Asia where the number of female migrant workers exceeds that of men, with a sizeable proportion of the women under the age of 20. But some politicians in the ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

“[T]he death penalty is not the solution” to Kyrgyzstan’s gender-based violence problem, a group of human rights organizations argue. In the wake of yet another horrific murder of a young woman by a ...

BISHKEK -- Hundreds of activists in Kyrgyzstan -- which the United Nations has chided for having issues with gender-based violence -- have rallied to demand equal rights for women as they mark ...

One woman’s battle to turn the tide against patriarchal norms in Kyrgyzstan has produced a mixed victory. In a ruling made public this week, the Constitutional Court decreed that citizens will be ...

Women and girls with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan experience abuse including rape, beatings, neglect, and humiliation, often by those closest to them, Human Rights Watch said in a report published today ...

Health officials in Kyrgyzstan have said that around 70 percent of girls between the ages of 11 and 14 have been vaccinated against Human Papillomavirus, or HPV, as part of an ongoing campaign to ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Reaching for the stars will no longer be impossible for girls and young women in Kyrgyzstan, who aim to build and launch the country's first satellite before 2020 ...

The wife of a former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States will speak at a Brigham Young University Women's Studies Colloquium on Thursday, Oct. 12, at noon. Cholpon Akmatalieva will diiscuss ...

BISHKEK — Like many people affected by serious illness in ex-Soviet Central Asia, Almagul Ibrayeva is having trouble finding medicine in her native Kyrgyzstan. “Women are dying because of a lack of ...