The Cost of Equality in Azerbaijan
Women paying a heavy price for trying to become more active and assertive in Azerbaijani society.
Women paying a heavy price for trying to become more active and assertive in Azerbaijani society.
More support is available for battered Turkmen women, but too many are resigned to their fate.
In remote Paktika province, women face enormous obstacles getting even basic medical treatment.
Dagestani women who enter into polygamous marriages risk losing everything - even their children - when their husband tires of them.
Teenage Azerbaijani girls in Georgia often have no choice but to marry young.
Kyrgyz women travel across the region to support their families, despite being bullied and harassed en route.
Women from southern Kazakstan are being forced into prostitution both at home and abroad.
Men are illegally divorcing their wives without them knowing.
A family planning campaign that looks benign is marred by allegations of forced sterilisation on a wide scale.