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Published in: 50.50Meet the Uzbek activists using apps to connect gay men to HIV testing and care
The 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 pandemic
Hundreds 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 Karimova
An 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 Kyrgyzstan
In 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 violence
Unhindered 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 there
In 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 violence
It 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 stop
Nearly 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 on
Eight 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 Kyrgyzstan
A 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 issues
A high-profile corruption investigation has divided public opinion along familiar regional lines.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionCentral Asian feminists are carving out their space in gender studies
Few theories directly deal with the experience of colonisation and patriarchy in Central Asia. It’s time to develop them.
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe moral education of a young woman in Kazakhstan
In Central Asia, female researchers trained in the west face traditionalism, poor compensation for work done and...
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Published in: oDRThe secret in their eyes: in Kyrgyzstan, plastic surgery is booming thanks to Instagram
In this Central Asian state, urban and social media-savvy women are increasingly turning to eye surgery for self-confidence.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Battle of Seattle: 20 years later, it's time for a revival
On this 20th anniversary of the Battle of Seattle, the struggle against globalized capital continues.
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Published in: ourEconomy"The UN is being turned into a public-private partnership": An interview with Harris Gleckman
Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system.
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Published in: ourEconomyourVoices Episode 1: Whose data? Our data!
In the first episode of ourVoices we explore the rise of big tech, and imagine a future where our data is used to...
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Published in: ourEconomyImpoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize
When the world is facing large systemic crises, why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes?
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Published in: ourEconomyTo salvage multilateralism we need a Global Green New Deal
It's time to reclaim the policy space lost to footloose capital by creating a new public realm at the global level.