Nurgul Djanaeva

Dr. Nurgul Djanaeva is founder and president of the Forum of women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan. She is the author and initiator of the five year comprehensive Program on Women's Political Participation “Bringing 50 women to national Parliament” and the campaign "50 days - 50 women.” This program brought several women to National Parliament. She is also Chair of the national working group on the SCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, and has drafted amendments to the law on gender equality in Kyrgyzstan.

Puddles in Kyrgyzstan

I wrote a book in 2002, Kyrgyzstan Women in Transition, as a reaction to the various interpretations foreigners made of what was going in my country at the time. I

By Nurgul Djanaeva

/ 29 May 2009

Women taking responsibility for peace, justice and equality

I am traveling from Kyrgyzstan to Guatemala to learn and to share: how women become proactive and not ask, but take responsibility for practising good citizenship inside and outside politics, how women unite in practical ways, both inside and outside politics, how women work to mainstream their ow

By Nurgul Djanaeva

/ 5 May 2009