ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- On the surface, it might seem like Kazakh officials are responding busily to the most high-profile incident of spousal murder in the country's history. In the capital, Astana, ...

Landmark buildings across Kazakhstan were lit up in orange to mark the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- More than 1,000 activists have rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty, to mark International Women's Day while demanding equal rights for women. The demonstrators, who ...

Kazakhstan officials have a history of banning demonstrations. In November 2021, Almaty’s city administration denied requests from feminist groups to hold an event yesterday. On February 7 this year, ...

Kazakhstan’s BeWoman Asia 2025 Forum explored the importance of supporting women and its role in building stronger, healthier, and more progressive societies. When women are empowered, they don’t just ...

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 ...

People, including activists of Zhana Adamdar (New People) youth movement, hold a rally under the slogan "Say no to the beast world" to support women's rights and to condemn gender-based domestic ...

A training seminar held this week by feminists and LGBT activists in a mining city in central Kazakhstan might have ended in violence but for the intervention of police. A group of activist trainers ...

Amid the more than 160 reported deaths and 12,000 arrests recently in Kazakhstan, one group was conspicuously missing from the chaotic protests—women. The complete absence of women from protests in ...

Update January 6: Dozens of people were killed in a police operation in Almaty, according to an Almaty police spokesperson, a shocking loss of life in response to overnight looting and unrest in ...