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 ...

On October 30, the Karakol City Court in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul Region upheld an 11-year sentence meted out in February 2023 to a 66-year-old man for the crime of raping a minor. The crime had only ...

“[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 ...

Thousands of Central Asians are believed to have joined Russia’s war effort in Ukraine, including women who were coerced or lured by offers of lucrative jobs.

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 ...