Kazakhstan’s BeWoman Asia 2025 Forum explored the importance of supporting women and its role in building stronger, healthier, and more progressive societies.

Kazakhstan is a unitary democratic secular state with the presidential form of government. President is selected for the period of 7 years. The Parliament, whose functions include adoption of laws, ...

While public Russian figures continue to undermine Kazakhstan, the Kazakh president seems to increasingly turn a blind eye.

(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 presidential election in Kazakhstan scheduled for June may, for the first time in the nation’s history, feature a female candidate. She won’t win, but it is something of a breakthrough nonetheless ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update: In an online hearing on April 7, an appeals court in Kazakhstan upheld the lower court’s ruling penalizing the Women’s Day march activists with administrative fines. On April 8, parliament ...

How many people each year fall victim to human trafficking is of course hard to gauge. But the International Organization for Migration believes a growing number of Central Asians are being trafficked ...

If you’re a female entrepreneur or successful businesswoman, how would you like your accomplishments to be celebrated? Chances are, whatever your answer, it wouldn’t be: with a special perfume for you ...

AKTAU, Kazakhstan — The young woman said she thought she was going on vacation in Turkey, but instead found herself in Syria, tricked, she said, by her husband, who joined the Islamic State. She ...

India Under-20 women’s football team defeated Kazakhstan Under-19 3-2 in the first friendly match at the BIIK Sports Complex ...