After an 18-month maternity leave, either parent may request unpaid childcare leave until the child turns three. Article 100 ...

Tashkent, Uzbekistan - The IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships is going to take place in Astana, Kazakhstan in 2024, as the IBA Board of Directors took the decision during their official meeting ...

(Berlin, March 7, 2023) – Kazakhstan should ensure that draft laws relating to domestic violence provide maximum protection for women from family violence, including by criminalizing domestic violence ...

Each year, the 16 Days of Activism campaign runs from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. In 2025, the UN's global ...

ASTANA -- Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev says Astana is "an important center of our geopolitical region," while Russian urbanist and blogger Ilya Varlamov calls it "an awful city, unadapted to ...

Nearly half of all small and medium-sized enterprises in Kazakhstan are owned by women, generating an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the country’s GDP across key sectors. Kazakhstan is increasingly ...