Officially, by the end of 2004 Kazakhstan had about 4,700 HIV/AIDS cases, but the real number is believed to be higher. In the first six months of this year, the country recorded 828 new HIV ...

Kazakhstan's state-run centers for children with special needs are being described by activists as "the place no one would have stayed" if they had a choice. Some 1,700 children with mental ...

There are a lot of kids! It’s better to study at school.” In 2015, Kazakhstan ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which guarantees the right to ...

Kazakhstan’s Labor and Social Protection Ministry helped facilitate access to three closed children’s institutions, in Almaty, Karaganda, and Shymkent, which Human Rights Watch visited in ...

Nearly everyone in the village of Kazygurt believes that Marat Maulenov, a 44-year-old local schoolteacher, has taken his family to Syria.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. For six weeks this summer, 17 Kazakhstan orphans lived the American dream. They swam, ate ...

NEWS BRIEF: A producer and broadcaster in Kazakhstan has licensed rights to Talpa Media’s singing talent format The Voice Kids. The junior version of The Voice will air on First Channel EurAsia in the ...