Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: BR-DATA-1

"22.6 births per 1000 population"

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"1. Property acquired by spouses during marriage is their joint property. 2. The property acquired by the spouses during marriage (common property of the spouses) includes the income of each of the spouses from labor activity, entrepreneurial activity and the results of intellectual activity, pensions, allowances received by them, as well as other cash payments that do not have a special purpose ( amounts of material assistance, amounts paid in compensation for damage in connection with disability due to injury or other damage to health, and others). The common property of the spouses is also movable and immovable things acquired at the expense of the joint income of the spouses,...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: LO-LAW-1

"The Civil, Family and Land Codes each provide women with the same property and land rights as men, before and during marriage (Civil Code art. 222-223 and 1118-1166; Family Code art. 35-38; Land Code art. 6 and 37-38): women thus have the same rights to own, use, dispose of, mortgage, inherit and make decisions over property and private land. These provisions are reinforced by the 2008 Law ‘on State guarantees for gender equality’ which provides all Kyrgyz and foreign citizens with equal access to all forms of ownership (art. 12) and the same right to use land (art. 13). However, women’s rights over joint property differ when they are not...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"[D]ivorced wives and female widows cannot claim their right to plots measuring less than 5 hectares as such plots are indivisible under the law (Land Code art. 72)" (7).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1, IAW-PRACTICE-1, IAD-PRACTICE-1, ATFPA-PRACTICE-2

"Despite the initial gender equality of land distribution, traditional practices and women’s low legal literacy emerged as major contributors to the decline in women’s land rights. Land is viewed as an important family asset and is controlled by male family members. There are longstanding beliefs, which are shared by women, that men should hold and manage land because they are responsible for providing for the family. Upon marriage, women typically leave their family lands to their father or brothers and access land through her husband’s family. Further reductions in women owned land is due to inheritance practices to leave land only to sons. Women are also subject to losing land...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: LO-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee notes that 65 per cent of women in the State party live in rural areas. It notes with concern:...Rural women's very limited access to land ownership and agricultural assets and the low percentage of rural women leading small agribusinesses and working on contracts in agriculture" (13-14). "The Committee reiterates its previous recommendation (CEDAW/C/KGZ/ CO/4, para. 32) that the State party combat poverty among rural women by ensuring their access to education, adequate water and sanitation, formal employment, low-interest loans without collateral and other forms of financial credit for agribusinesses, and ownership and use of land" (14).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: LO-LAW-1

According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), the law prohibits discrimination in access to credit based on gender. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Law on State Guarantees of Equal Rights and Equal Opportunities for Men and Women, Arts. 2, 5, and 14. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can sign a contract in the same way as a man. The WBL database cites the following as the source: Family Code, Arts. 1(3), 3(1), and 32. According to the "Women, Business, and the Law" database (2022), a woman can register a business in the same way as a...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: MARR-LAW-7

"Conversely, a man and a woman whose parents are related as sisters—such cousins are known as bölö—are allowed to marry, and occasionally do so, although people who know of biological genetics sometimes argue against this."

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ATC-DATA-5

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] notes that the adherence of the State party to the nine major international human rights instruments would enhance the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms in all aspects of life. The Committee therefore encourages the State party to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, to which it is not yet a party" (17)

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ATDW-LAW-1

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] notes with concern…[t]hat women who undergo a religious ceremony (nikah) without civil marriage do not benefit from the protection of the Family Code and are denied economic protection upon dissolution of the union" (16).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: CUST-LAW-4

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Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-3

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] remains concerned about…barriers to women's promotion to management positions, higher-paid jobs and decision-making positions, including in national and local administrations" (10).

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: MULV-LAW-1

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms Discrimination against Women]…remains concerned about…[t]he concentration of women in the informal economy (64 per cent), often in exploitative conditions and without access to labour and social protection, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic" (10). "The Committee...recommends that the State party...ensure maternity protection for women working in the informal economy" (11). "The Committee recommends that the State party…[a]dopt a law on a national care system and transformative fiscal policies and strategies to meet the needs imposed by care work, to reduce the burden of unpaid care work on women, particularly rural women; facilitate access to high-quality and affordable gender-responsive public services in such areas...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: RISW-PRACTICE-1

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] welcomes the State party’s efforts to improve its institutional and policy framework aimed at accelerating the elimination of discrimination against women and promoting gender equality, such as the adoption of the following: (a) The fifth National Plan of Action for Gender Equality (2018–2020); (b) The action plan to implement Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security, in 2018; (c) The action plan for the implementation of the Committee’s concluding observations on the State party’s fourth periodic report (Government Order No. 123 -r of 19 April 2017)" (2). "The Committee welcomes the adoption of the...more

Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: CLCC-LAW-1, CLCC-LAW-2

"The Committee [on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women] recommends that the State party...[e]nsure that girls and boys born on the territory of the State party are registered at birth and have access to Kyrgyz nationality and identity documents, regardless of their parents' consent or nationality, residence or marital status, and that loss or renunciation of nationality is contingent on the possession or acquistion of another nationality" (9).