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A mother tends to her baby at a women's centre in Aktau City, Kazakhstan.
© UNICEF/Andrey Kim

UN refugee agency welcomes move to register all births in Kazakhstan

26 December 2019
Human Rights

The decision to ensure that all babies born in Kazakhstan are registered at birth and issued birth certificates has been welcomed by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. 

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Repatriation of extremist fighters and families to Kazakhstan, welcomed by UN rights expert

17 May 2019
Human Rights

Stressing the need for some Governments to reform their laws and policies on fighting terrorism and extremism, an independent UN human rights expert welcomed on Friday Kazakhstan’s repatriation of 231 of its citizens from conflict sites in Syria and Iraq, earlier this month.

Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-second session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Peace and stability vital for sustainable development in a fragile world, Kazakh Minister tells UN Assembly

22 September 2017
Addressing the 72nd annual general debate at the United Nations General Assembly, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan reiterated his country’s commitment to sustainable development and urged global leaders to remain steadfast in their battle against climate change, including through the use of renewable energy.
View of downtown Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
World Bank/Shynar Jetpissova

UN torture prevention body urges Kazakhstan to enhance prisoner rehabilitation

3 October 2016
The United Nations’ torture prevention body has urged Kazakhstan to focus more on the rehabilitation of prisoners rather than punishment, as part of efforts to ensure that people deprived of their liberty are protected against torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peacful assembly and of association Maina Kiai.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

New law threatens civil society independence in Kazakhstan, warns UN expert

15 October 2015
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today warned that a new bill amending the law on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Kazakhstan, may compromise the independence of associations and also challenge their existence.
Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peacful assembly and of association Maina Kiai.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN expert urges Kazakhstan to boost rights of peaceful assembly, association

28 January 2015
An independent United Nations rights expert today urged the Government of Kazakhstan to match the country's economic successes of the past quarter century with a ramped-up focus on human rights by opening up the Central Asian state's democratic spaces.
High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

UN human rights official calls for independent investigation into Kazakh clashes

12 July 2012
The United Nations human rights chief today called for an independent international investigation into the deadly clashes between striking workers and police in the western town of Zhanaozen in Kazakhstan in December last year.
Kishore Singh, Special Rapporteur on the right to education.
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Independent UN expert calls on Kazakhstan to invest more in inclusive education

20 September 2011
An independent United Nations human rights expert has called on Kazakhstan to invest more in promoting inclusive education so that no one is left behind, particularly those belonging to vulnerable groups such as persons with disabilities, refugees or migrants.
Gay McDougall, UN Independent Expert on Minority Issues

Kazakhstan has ‘room for improvement’ on minority issues – UN rights expert

15 July 2009
In spite of the high degree of inter-ethnic and inter-religious cooperation and tolerance in Kazakhstan, a United Nations human rights expert said there is still “room for improvement” on minority issues in the Central Asian nation.

UN refugee agency urges Kazakhstan not to forcibly return Uzbek rights activist

5 July 2005
The United Nations refugee agency today urged authorities in Kazakhstan not to forcibly return a well-known Uzbek human rights activist, who was arrested along with his family yesterday in the Kazakh capital, Almaty, after having fled there following the recent military crackdown in his own country.