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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.
Women continue to be killed. Why does Kyrgyzstan not recognize the existence of femicide at the legislative level? (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…)
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.
The Central Asian leaders do not necessarily have to amend the Constitution frequently to stay in power, while the sequence of presidents does not mean that the state is a democratic one. (more…)
Populations of capital cities of Central Asian states grow bigger every year, as well as the number of multi-storey buildings. Cities rise higher, often ignoring the needs of residents.
The relief of Central Asia and the remoteness from the main routes for laying underwater fiber–optic cables are one of the main difficulties for installing broadband connections, which means successful digitalization of the economy. (more…)
Central Asia has been in an absolutely unique situation for more than 30 years. It had a disproportionately large (for newly created states) technical potential for the extraction and transportation of minerals. But at the same time there were conditions for widespread corruption and violations of the law flourished in newly independent states.
Experts are concerned about the growing incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the country. (more…)