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Published in: 50.50: NewsSexual violence laws enable impunity in Eurasia, report findsEquality Now is calling on Eurasian countries to amend sexual violence laws towards consent-based definitions
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisDid Kyrgyzstan turn into an authoritarian state overnight?The country, once considered Central Asia's most democratic, has seen a media and civic crackdown sparked by a...
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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: 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: oDRYoung disabled people in Kyrgyzstan find new goals and opportunitiesMore than 5,000 people with vision impairment live in Kyrgyzstan. I speak to Matluba Hakimova about independence,...
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Published in: oDRUlanbek Egizbaev’s search for the truth in KyrgyzstanThe sudden tragic death of an investigative journalist raises questions about the fate of the press in Kyrgyzstan.
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Published in: oDRUncovering Stalin’s terror in KyrgyzstanEighty years after Stalin’s Great Terror, the names of thousands of its victims in Kyrgyzstan have still not been...
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Published in: oDRRough justice in KyrgyzstanNew data shows that 96% of people who find themselves before a Kyrgyz court receive a guilty verdict (unless they...
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Published in: oDRThe Central Asian valley where borders dissolve in grassroots cooperationSandwiched between three Central Asian states, people living on all sides of the Ferghana Valley are overcoming...
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Published in: oDRHopeless but happy: Azimjon Askarov and the discontents of Kyrgyzstan’s post-2010 orderA new memoir by Kyrgyzstan’s most prominent political prisoner takes readers back to the violence and impunity that...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan survives on money made by migrant workers, but it doesn’t know how to spend itNo country in the world is as dependent on remittances as Kyrgyzstan. But this money is often used by families to...
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Published in: oDRAbuse of power? On the trail of China's mystery millions in KyrgyzstanFor over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project...
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Published in: oDRWhat we know about alleged elite corruption under former Kyrgyz president Almazbek AtambayevAs Kyrgyzstan’s new regime consolidates power, fresh allegations of corruption by Atambayev loyalists are emerging.
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Published in: oDRFear and loathing in Kyrgyzstan: how the LGBTQI community is fighting back against rising discriminationLGBTQI people remain easy targets in Kyrgyzstan, with nowhere to turn for recourse. But activists are fighting back.
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Published in: oDRDouble discrimination: why Uzbek women in Kyrgyzstan are a minority within a minorityIn the aftermath of Kyrgyzstan's 2010 revolution, the country's Uzbek minority population has seen their position...
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Published in: oDRAre Kyrgyzstan’s glaciers under threat? This ecologist thinks soThe Central Asian state’s Tian Shan mountain range isn’t just home to shrinking glaciers. It’s also the site of an...
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Published in: oDRHow social media users in Kyrgyzstan are turned into “extremists”In Kyrgyzstan, social media users are persecuted for sharing their opinions online. It’s easy to find “incitement to...
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Published in: oDRKyrgyzstan’s indispensable women are undervaluedKyrgyz women still tend to live and work in traditionally female occupations. RU
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Published in: oDR“Inciters, deceivers, slaves”: Kyrgyzstan’s president takes aim at the pressNew moves against opposition politicians and the press are meant to scare the last bastion of Kyrgyzstan’s civil...
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Published in: oDRIslam in Kyrgyzstan: growing in diversitySince the late 1980s, Kyrgyzstan has witnessed an Islamic revival. Recent talk of extremist threats and...
