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Gender stereotypes continue to influence career choices: despite girls’ achievements in exact sciences at school, preference is still given to humanitarian specialties. How does this happen? Let’s see data.
On April 10, 2024, several thousand people gathered in the central mosque of Almaty, the largest metropolitan city of the republic, to pray at one of the most important holidays of the Muslims, Oraza Ait. (more…)
Women continue to be killed. Why does Kyrgyzstan not recognize the existence of femicide at the legislative level? (more…)
“I have always wanted to see Aral first-hand. Back in the school days, in the USA, we were told during classes how the Aral dried up. The rivers that flew into the sea were used to irrigate fields,” Carolina Solomon, an American student, said. She managed to see Aral when she volunteered in the environmental campaign to restore the Aral ecosystem “Syr korgany sekseyil” (translated from Kazakh as ‘Haloxylon – the support of Syrdarya’). (more…)
The remediation of uranium mill tailings has been discussed for over 10 years in Kyrgyzstan. In 2023, remediation of the four uranium mill tailings was started in the village of Min-Kush, which raises concerns of local residents. (more…)
The meaning of religion for residents of Kazakhstan is changing: there are more people with religious views. This is evidenced by the World Values Survey programme, which was used for two surveys in Kazakhstan – in 2011 and 2018. (more…)
Women have become leading lights in the field of environmental activism across Central Asia, despite facing public resistance and gender discrimination – and the fact that there are almost no women political decision-makers across the region. (more…)
In 2023, according to the UNHCR, 37,257 people are stateless in Central Asia.
Individuals in Kazakhstan may apply for bankruptcy since March 2023. This is a new way for the country to bring a person back to a healthy financial life. (more…)
Young people in Uzbekistan have not yet formed a conscious, careful attitude to water and water resources – this is the conclusion reached by researchers of the Center for Media Research and Educational Development (Mediadatalab) of Uzbekistan. However, the overwhelming majority – 74.1% or three quarters of the surveyed young people – are ready to use the advice, which they consider rational, in practice.