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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. 

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President Kazakhstan, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventy-fourth session.
UN Photo/Cia Pak

Kazakhstan continues to push for a nuclear-free world

24 September 2019
Peace and Security

Kazakhstan, the Central Asian country which has renounced nuclear weapons, continued on Tuesday to urge the international community to make a nuclear-free world reality.

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.