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BISHKEK (TCA) — A court in Kyrgyzstan has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and killing a young woman in a case that caused public outcry in the Central Asian nation, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, the nation-wide campaign “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” started in Astana with the support of the United Nations in Kazakhstan, National Commission for Women, Family and Demographic Policy under the President of Kazakhstan and the National Volunteer Network. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — More than 60 government and parliamentary representatives from Central Asia gathered at a United Nations regional conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on November 5 to discuss holistic strategies to combat all forms of violence against women and girls in Central Asia. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The second exhibition of the international project of the National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan Focus Kazakhstan "Bread and Roses: Four Generations of Kazakhstani Women Artists" opened in the House of Artists Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Central Asia Drug Action Programme (CADAP) on September 26 officially handed over the building of the Rehabilitation and Social Adaptation Centre "Clean zone" based at the correctional institution #2. In the only female correctional institution in Kyrgyzstan located in Stepnoye village, the construction of the “Clean zone” for convicted women who made a choice to quit using psychoactive substances, has been completed. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has charged Kyrgyzstan with allowing systemic human-rights violations due to "a culture of abduction, rape, and forced marriage." Continue reading
