Kyrgyz mountaineer Asel Baibagysheva became the first female climber from Kyrgyzstan to scale the world’s highest peak.

TASS/. A young woman from Kyrgyzstan has been sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in Russia for trying to sell her newborn baby via the internet, Lyudmila Nefedova, a spokesperson for the Moscow ...

Although the protests were small in scale, activists continue to make strident pleas for President Japarov to address the plight of women and girls in Kyrgyzstan. The gender quota in local ...

In the discussion, point out that culture plays a key role in how families are formed and in the roles that are played by men and women. Show students where Kyrgyzstan is on a map. Using Facts ...

Women in Kyrgyzstan will now face fines for wearing the full-body niqab, under a January ban that has now received the backing of the country's top Islamic authority.

Women in Kyrgyzstan are banned from wearing niqabs as the country claims they could be “attackers in disguise”. The Muslim country’s government has backed plans to fine anyone wearing the ...