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In Kyrgyzstan, it appears that the police and nationalist groups are increasingly conspiring to push organised...

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Nearly three years ago, a law outlawing domestic violence was passed in Kyrgyzstan, but it has had little effect....

It shouldn’t take a series of brutal murders to prompt government action.

Eight years after the infamous massacre of striking oil workers and their supporters at Zhanaozen in western...

A recent feminist art exhibition in Bishkek brought whip-wielding nationalists out to protest. Their outrage shows...

A high-profile corruption investigation has divided public opinion along familiar regional lines.

In Central Asia, female researchers trained in the west face traditionalism, poor compensation for work done and...

Few theories directly deal with the experience of colonisation and patriarchy in Central Asia. It’s time to develop them.

In this Central Asian state, urban and social media-savvy women are increasingly turning to eye surgery for self-confidence.

On this 20th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle, the struggle against globalized capital continues.

Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.

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When the world is facing large systemic crises, why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes?

It's time to reclaim the policy space lost to footloose capital by creating a new public realm at the global level.