A protest against bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, on April 8, 2021, after a young woman abducted for marriage was found dead. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images There are many ...

BISHKEK -- This time last year, six women activists were among more than two dozen people arrested and jailed in a crackdown on dissent that marked a turning point for the rule of Kyrgyz President ...

What clothes women are allowed to wear and whether or not men can have bushy beards are being debated again in Muslim-majority Central Asia, this time in Kyrgyzstan. The parliament of the former ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority. Calling the niqab "alien to our ...

This week, activists in Kyrgyzstan staged rallies in Bishkek and Osh in protest of violence against women. A disturbing case — the repeated rape over a six-month period of a 13-year-old girl by four ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

Hat Yai Flooding Catastrophe a Massive Blow to Thailand’s PM Anutin On March 8, 2021, activists organized Kyrgyzstan’s largest peaceful march in celebration of International Women’s Day. As in ...

On the side of a five-story Soviet-era apartment block in central Bishkek, a mural shows a female wrestler emblazoned against Kyrgyzstan’s red-and-yellow flag, her arms outstretched in triumph. The ...

Have students write in their journal for five minutes about if they think they will marry. If not, why not? If so, how do they think they will meet the person they will someday marry? When the five ...

The wife of a former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the United States will speak at a Brigham Young University Women's Studies Colloquium on Thursday, Oct. 12, at noon. Cholpon Akmatalieva will diiscuss ...

A chartered plane flew into Kyrgyzstan from Syria last week carrying 59 Kyrgyz nationals in the latest phase on an ongoing mission to repatriate the families of militant fighters who enlisted in the ...