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• Women (Kazakhstan)

  Kazakhstan: Interview with Zhanar Sekerbayeva

  10 May 2023, by Feminist Anti-War Resistance/FAS (Russia), SEKERBAYEVA Zhanar

  We spoke with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist, human rights defender, LGBTIQ+ activist and co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative — https://feminita.kz/author/janarsek/ . This year, Zhanar ran for election to Maslikhat (a regional parliament in Kazakhstan) and spoke openly (…)

• Women (Kazakhstan)

  How Kazakhstan’s mothers formed a protest movement – and what they want

  14 June 2022, by SHAPAGAT Aigerim

  The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history
  It’s evening in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, and a long queue of women and children is standing outside an elite residential complex. (…)