Despite vows by Kazakhstan’s leadership to make women safer, traditional gender roles are continuously reinforced, creating harmful conditions for women. These gender roles are also echoed by the ...

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IF YOUR PARTNER were lying unconscious after a frenzied assault, you would generally call an ambulance. Not Kuandyk Bishimbayev, a former minister in Kazakhstan. Instead, as his common-law wife lay ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court on Monday convicted a former government official of torturing and murdering his wife and sentenced him to 24 years in prison in a case that has gripped the ...

Recent law reforms in Kazakhstan to strengthen protections against domestic violence are welcome but still do not go far enough, and major legal gaps remain. Everyone has been waiting for better laws ...

Kazakhstan's Supreme Court has convicted former government official Kuandyk Bishimbayev of torturing and murdering his wife. Bishimbayev was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday. The case sparked ...

Kazakhstan's former Economy Minister Kuandyk Bishimbayev attends a court hearing in Astana ASTANA (Reuters) -A former economy minister of Kazakhstan was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday for ...

The issue of domestic violence is under the spotlight in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, as the trial of a former government minister accused of murdering his wife draws to a close. In ...

The issue of domestic violence is under the spotlight in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, as the trial of a former government minister... People in Kazakhstan are gripped by the country's ...