Dilara Isa is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Kazakh Service.
Behind many of the roughly 2,000 teenage pregnancies registered in Kazakhstan every year lie stories of horrendous abuse and a lack of sexual education and support for young girls.
Extra security was deployed to the southern Kazakh village of Zaghambar on April 24 after a reported rape appeared to spark interethnic violence. Several cars and barns were set on fire. Local police say a teenage boy suspected of sexually assaulting a teenage girl was detained.
After a long, dry summer, prices for scarce hay and fodder are spiking. As the government moves to cover the shortfall, a national agriculture lobby says farming faces a fight for its future.
The mother of a murdered 5-year-old girl broke down in a court in Kazakhstan on September 7 after a judge ruled that a suspect from the country's Turkestan region was guilty of her murder. Saidolim Gaibnazarov was sentenced to life in prison for sexually assaulting and killing the child.
A court in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent has rejected an appeal filed by lawyers of opposition activist Erulan Amirov of a lower court's ruling sentencing him to seven years in prison on terrorism charges.
An opposition activist in Kazakhstan's southern city of Shymkent has been sentenced to seven years in prison on terrorism charges that he rejects.
A Kazakh activist is facing prison after airing last month's anti-government protests live on Facebook. She denies charges of attacking government officials and buildings, saying she joined the protests to "let officials know" about the plight of people.
An official in Kazakhstan’s southern Turkistan region has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the assassination of an independent journalist.
A court in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent has handed lengthy prison terms to 13 people, including two Russian citizens, in a human-trafficking case.
A court in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, has sentenced noted opposition activist Erlan Faizullaev to 15 days in jail for allegedly participating in a rally last month, his third conviction in the past six months.
Police in Kazakhstan’s southern Zhambyl region have summoned two journalists as part of a probe into what they called the "distribution of false information" over deadly ammunition explosions last month.
Two more Kazakh activists have been sentenced to "restricted freedom," a parole-like sentence, for having links to the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement amid an ongoing crackdown on supporters of the opposition group and the associated Koshe (Street) party.
A Kazakh court has sentenced an activist to two years of "freedom limitation," a parole-like sentence, for having ties to the banned Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement amid an ongoing crackdown on supporters of the opposition group and the associated Koshe (Street) party.
Police in the southern Kazakh city of Shymkent have detained more than a dozen activists, including three who have been on a hunger strike for weeks to push for the release of political prisoners.
Kazakh authorities are looking into recent fighting between ethnic Uzbek and Kazakh residents in southern Kazakhstan. The village remains under a nighttime curfew and police vehicles have patrolled the streets since the violence broke out on July 20.
The parents of some HIV-positive children infected in a spate of high-profile cases more than a decade ago have stopped allowing treatment of the youngsters.
More women are taking their own lives in South Kazakhstan, but it's not clear why.
A group of Kazakh villagers lovingly restored their hometown's crumbling Stalin statue, but local authorities didn't let it stand for long.
