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Young school girls conducting a science experiment.

Helping girls aspire for more

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About two years ago, I was meeting a group of adolescent girls and boys in Aravan, a rural area in the southern part of Kyrgyzstan, to talk about their lives, their plans and visions for the future. Something that struck me was that girls were very keen on continuing education, learning new skills and building a professional career. They… Read more →←
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UNICEF Volunteers support distance learning for every child in Kyrgyzstan during COVID-19

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The global COVID-19 pandemic changed lives in Kyrgyzstan as it did in many parts of the world. Due to the state of emergency in some cities and regions, including the capital Bishkek, many institutions were closed, some organizations switched to remote working, and people were only allowed to leave their houses to go to essential… Read more →←
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What is the price tag on a child left behind by migration?

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While I attend a high-profile conference analysing the trends and flows of migration remittances in the Kyrgyz Republic I get a bit dizzy and overwhelmed by numbers, charts and figures. Indeed 35 per cent of the GDP of the country comes from remittances, money that migrant workers living abroad send back to their families, truly an… Read more →←
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Protecting children left behind by migration

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The European Union and UNICEF work together to protect children in the Kyrgyz Republic Opa lives at the end of a dusty road in the village of Atabekov, south Kyrgyzstan, a stone’s throw from the Uzbek border. It took us a while to find her house wandering around the hamlet amid children molding bricks from mud and others swimming in… Read more →←
A boy holds a white translucent rubber ball in his hand as he looks at other similar glowing orbs in a box inside a dimly lit room.

Towards a child-friendly justice system in Kyrgyzstan

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Whenever I am in a courtroom I remember the old legal quote: “the trial itself is a punishment.” Whether you are an accused, a witness or an injured person, being party to a trial is a stress that in many cases reaches the level of punishment. This principle is true for children whose emotions are particularly tender and susceptible.… Read more →←

Building peace on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border

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Tairbek Abdilashim uulu, 22, lives in a village in south Kyrgyzstan, a few hundred meters from the Tajikistan border. “It’s so close, but until a couple of years ago, we didn’t interact with our neighbors; we didn’t even say hello,” the 22-year-old recalls. Things have changed since then. Tairbek has built his own network of… Read more →←
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Kyrgyzstan: Talking menstruation

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Girls are scared, they don’t understand what is wrong with them, they think of many awful things and they don’t know what to do. Some girls suffer so much that in some cases even commit suicide. Why? Because they are having their period for the first time. In Kyrgyzstan, many young girls are not aware of menstruation, nobody talks to… Read more →←

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