Kyrgyzstan: Failing Victims of Domestic Violence
With no legal provision for self-defence as a mitigating factor, women who kill their relatives are almost always found guilty.
With no legal provision for self-defence as a mitigating factor, women who kill their relatives are almost always found guilty.
Experts say arrest only marks a temporary truce in an ongoing power struggle.
Draft regulations aims to increase oversight and introduce practical skills into curricula.
Language and education could be key to improving relations.
Mass release of detainees stirs hopes that international criticism may be working.
Opinion remains divided on the status of this time-honoured, non-dogmatic faith.
Hundreds face trial over allegedly radical books, videos or pamphlets.
Complaints that communal bodies exclude female voices from organisation roles.
Tightened customs controls are leading to losses for Kyrgyz exporters.
The country’s next president looks set follow in the footsteps of the incumbent.