IN a picturesque street overlooked by world-famous mountains, a schoolgirl screams, “No! Mum!” as she’s grabbed by the arms ...

On Friday, Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev took an important step in the fight against child marriage by signing a new law introducing criminal sanctions, including imprisonment, for ...

Kyrgyzstan's parliament has banned a long-standing tradition of families pressuring the victims of domestic violence to reconcile with their abusers to avoid divorce at any cost. The move comes as ...

The Mullah And Marriage In Kyrgyzstan January 09, 2016 22:31 CET By Bruce Pannier; Share . Print. There is an effort under way in ...

The first is simply that young people in Kyrgyzstan are becoming more religious and wish to have a religious ceremony that formalizes their wedding. For people far from the cities, where the marriage ...

The failure of Kyrgyzstan’s government to prevent and punish violence against women and girls leaves them at risk of injury and even death, Human Rights Watch said today, a year after a man ...

Forced marriage is considered a human rights violation by the United Nations, and women who refuse it in Kyrgyzstan have been killed. While the film is a work of fiction, the stories depicted are ...

Although Kyrgyzstan outlawed bride kidnapping in 2013 and banned child marriage in 2016, nearly 12,000 young women and girls are thought to be kidnapped for marriage each year, the Women's Support ...

Why women leave Kyrgyzstan. In rural Kyrgyzstan, a young woman’s chances of avoiding a forced marriage depend largely on her parents’ willingness to intervene on her behalf after kidnapping. A girl ...

They call it ala kachuu, or "grab and run."In Kyrgyzstan, as many as 40% of ethnic Kyrgyz women are married after being kidnapped by the men who become their husbands, according to a local NGO.

The legal age of marriage in Kyrgyzstan is 18, although that can be lowered by special dispensation. The broader ambition of the amendments proposed by Ata-Meken party deputy Aida Salyanova were to ...