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UNICEF analysis shows that children from low-income households are 1.4 times less likely to attend preschool facilities than children from other households. As a result, children living in poverty have less ability to acquire knowledge and skills needed for thriving in adult life. (more…)
The charity sector in Kyrgyzstan is growing, yet for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction: the fraud cases increase along with the cases of real help.
Cultural tourism has great potential in Kyrgyzstan, experts say, but the state does not want to develop it and invest money into this trend. There are two historical and cultural sites of the UNESCO heritage in the country. One of them is Mountain Sulaiman Too in Osh, and the second one are the objects of the Silk Road – Burana, Ak-Beshim and Krasnaya Rechka in Chui district. The first one is maintained and its location in the city facilitates access of tourists, and the second one is much harder to maintain. (more…)
he Central Asian region is the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. The common problems of all five countries will be melting glaciers and decreasing surface water runoff, that is, rivers’ water that flows over the soil surface into the lakes, says Andrey Podrezov, Head of the Department of Meteorology, Ecology and Environmental Protection at the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. (more…)
Almost half of Central Asia’s population lives in rural and remote areas and does not have access to the Internet. What is the level of development of mobile communications and the Internet in the countries of the region? What is hindering the development of the telecommunications sector?
A long-awaited global conference will be held in November 2021 – the Climate Change Conference of the Parties. (more…)
The world celebrates the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, which was declared to increase awareness of gender inequality and social vulnerability of girls. (more…)
The complex geopolitical situation, unresolved border problems, accompanied by bloody conflicts, determine the growth of militarization in Central Asia. Which countries export weapons to the Central Asian region and what trends in this area can be identified? To answer these questions, we have analyzed data from the Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI). (more…)
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) caused by it is called the plague of the 21st century. Although it is another century, the problem of disease mongering is still pressing. However, today HIV is no more a fatal verdict. (more…)