Women

Uzbek Nobel Nominees Get Cold Shoulder

The quest for the Nobel Peace Prize is proving more trouble than it’s worth for Uzbek women nominees.

22 Sep 05

Sense of hopelessness and despair prompts growing numbers of rural women to turn to drink.

22 Sep 05

Maternal mortality rates in some parts of country said to be the highest in the world.

8 Sep 05

Kazak society is split on the contentious practice of bride abduction, a long-standing tradition for young men looking to marry.

25 Aug 05

Long tradition of intermarriage in Dagestan still going strong, despite warnings about the effect on the gene pool.

25 Aug 05

Women theoretically have the right to run their own farms, but they are still marginalised from real power on the land.

25 Aug 05

Women working in illicit brothels increasingly turn out to be from strict traditional backgrounds.

8 Aug 05

Azeri women determined to produce a male heir are risking their health in abortion clinics.

8 Aug 05

After long years of wandering, one former refugee is more than happy to brave the daily dangers of life in war torn Chechnya.

8 Aug 05

Poverty and the ready availability of heroin have led many women to take up drug dealing.

12 Jul 05

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