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 people ...

BISHKEK -- In the space of a single month, three Kyrgyz women from different walks of life killed themselves in the northeastern Issyk-Kul region in separate cases linked to domestic violence. Among ...

There is an effort under way in Kyrgyzstan to place some regulations on marriages performed by mullahs to hold the religious figures responsible for marriages that should not have been allowed under ...

Lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan have provoked outrage in some quarters by rejecting proposals to change the criminal code that would have outlawed the religious consecration of marriage rites for minors. The ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

In many cases, the groom will rape his kidnapped bride to prevent her from returning to her family due to shame LONDON, Aug 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About one in five young women and girls in ...

Mullahs and Marriage: Bruce Pannier, writing for RFE/RL, this week dove into issues of religion, government, tradition and convenience. Two Kyrgyz parliamentarians have introduced legislation to put ...

Elzat Kazakbaeva (L) and Aida Sooronbaeva (R), bride kidnapping survivors, wait in the backstage for a fashion show organised by fashion designer Zamira Moldosheva, part of a public movement against ...

President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev signed on Friday a law banning the religious marriage rites without official registration of a marriage in the registry office, the President's press service ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - About one in five young women and girls in Kyrgyzstan are kidnapped for marriage, according to a study published on Wednesday which found their babies are smaller ...