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Published in: oDR: OpinionKazakhstan’s Eurasian illusionsTrying to find out what “Eurasia” means for Kazakhstan’s foreign policy turned out to be much harder than predicted.
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Published in: oDR: InvestigationFor western brands, Uzbekistan’s cotton privatisation raises red flagsAs Uzbekistan turns to privatisation to solve forced labour in the state-controlled cotton sector, an investigation...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionUK must end trade complicity in Uzbek forced labourA new report documents the ongoing use of forced labour in Uzbekistan's cotton sector.
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s not so “wonderful” anti-disinformation lawNew legislation on online disinformation comes at a time when Kyrgyzstan’s public conversation about elite...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionA decade on, what has been learnt from Kyrgyzstan's 2010 clashes?If ordinary people improve the prospects for dialogue, they can deescalate violence at critical times. That's how...
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Published in: ОД "Русская версия"Why Uzbekistan's journalists still yearn for changeIn recent years, Uzbekistan has embarked on ambitious reforms. But for the country's long-struggling journalists,...
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Published in: 50.50Meet the Uzbek activists using apps to connect gay men to HIV testing and careThe Uzbek government’s liberal reforms leave out its gay community, so activists are finding creative ways to offer...
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Published in: oDR“Even though I am in prison, I feel the freedom of my soul”Today Azimjon Askarov, an imprisoned human rights defender from southern Kyrgyzstan, faces an appeal hearing. In...
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Published in: ОД "Русская версия"Russia's labour migrants are caught between poverty and a pandemicHundreds of thousands of Central Asian migrants are trapped in Russia's quarantine lockdown, lacking jobs,...
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Published in: oDRHouse of mirrors: what’s behind the third prosecution of Gulnara KarimovaAn international arbitration case sheds light on the third successful prosecution of Gulnara Karimova, Uzbekistan’s...
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Published in: oDR: Opinion“Your traditions, our blood!”: The struggle against patriarchal violence in KyrgyzstanIn Kyrgyzstan, it appears that the police and nationalist groups are increasingly conspiring to push organised...
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Published in: oDRIn Kazakhstan, women march for their rights - and against violenceUnhindered by government restrictions, activists in Kazakhstan held the largest women’s day rally in years on 8 March.
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Published in: oDRIn Uzbekistan, homosexuality is illegal. Here's what LGBT life is like thereIn a country where sex between men is a crime, these personal accounts reveal the everyday realities of pressure,...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionGrim news from Kyrgyzstan on domestic violenceIt shouldn’t take a series of brutal murders to prompt government action.
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Published in: oDRWhy domestic violence is flourishing in Kyrgyzstan - and how it could stopNearly three years ago, a law outlawing domestic violence was passed in Kyrgyzstan, but it has had little effect....
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Published in: oDRThey shot to kill: the massacre of Kazakhstan’s striking oil workers, eight years onEight years after the infamous massacre of striking oil workers and their supporters at Zhanaozen in western...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionFateful Feminnale: an insider’s view of a “controversial” feminist art exhibition in KyrgyzstanA recent feminist art exhibition in Bishkek brought whip-wielding nationalists out to protest. Their outrage shows...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionPolarisation grows as Kyrgyzstan tackles controversial corruption issuesA high-profile corruption investigation has divided public opinion along familiar regional lines.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe moral education of a young woman in KazakhstanIn Central Asia, female researchers trained in the west face traditionalism, poor compensation for work done and...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionCentral Asian feminists are carving out their space in gender studiesFew theories directly deal with the experience of colonisation and patriarchy in Central Asia. It’s time to develop them.
