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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many types of forced marriage in this world, but perhaps the most dramatic is marriage by abduction, or bride kidnapping. Bride kidnapping is common in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the ...

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 ...

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 ...