For the first time in its history, a Kazakh documentary has premiered at the Berlinale’s Forum section — one of the world’s ...

Each year, the 16 Days of Activism campaign runs from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. In 2025, the UN's global ...

(Berlin, June 24, 2025) – A woman from western Kazakhstan who experienced two decades of severe domestic abuse by her former husband is to be retried for allegedly conspiring to murder him, Human ...

Edited by India’s Arya Rothe, Kristina Mikhailova’s radical portrait of Kazakh women premieres in Berlinale Forum, marking a historic first for Kazakhstan’s non-fiction cinema ...

The Altai district court in the East Kazakhstan region said on December 27 that it had handed a deferred five-year prison term two weeks earlier to a 43-year-old woman on a charge of online calls for ...

Female activists in four major cities in Kazakhstan have taken to the streets to protest the government’s ongoing program to gradually raise the retirement age for women in the Central Asian nation.

BUFFALO, NY- November 22, 2023 – A new research paper was published in Oncotarget's Volume 14 on October 4, 2023, entitled, “Determination of genetic predisposition to early breast cancer in women of ...

No matter what the verdict against Bishimbayev turns out to be, change in relation to domestic violence in Kazakhstan is long overdue. Women in Central Asia “feel unsafe everywhere,” says Svetlana ...

Women in Kazakhstan too often face injury or even death, as in Saltanat’s case, because of the authorities’ failure to uphold their rights and adequately protect them from abuse. The public has done ...

One of the central figures that she discussed was the ancient Turkic goddess Umai, commonly portrayed as a fertility deity or earth goddess. Nauryzbai stressed that this interpretation reflects ...