Our partner, Transitions Online, has posted an interview with Byubyusara Ryskulova by Anna Kirey, who runs Genderstan, a blog about gender in Central Asia.
The interview looks at Ryskulova’s work with the domestic violence crisis centre Sezim, which was founded in April 1998 and is Bishkek’s only such centre. In the last nine years […]

Further to Djigit’s post of Aziza Abdirasulova’s letter following an attack on her in Naryn on August 10, RFE/RL published an article entitled “Women Activists Report Increasing Harassment” at the start of the month.
Referring to prominent and widely-respected activists including Tolekan Ismailova, Valentina Gritsenko and Aziza Abdirasulova, the article reports that there is growing […]

There are quite a lot of examples of polygamy in Kyrgyzstan. I know a man who lives in one of the villages nearby Karakol town and has four wives and thirteen children. One can get an impression that they all live happily and treat each other well: children love each other equally and call […]