In plain sight, in a modern city, a colleague offers to drive you home after work. How would you respond? One woman in Kazakhstan accepted the lift only to find herself kidnapped or ‘stolen’ as a ...

Kazakhstan has taken a historic step to end one of its most disturbing practices, banning forced marriages and bride kidnappings under new legislation that carries prison terms of up to 10 years. The ...

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Kazakhstan has finally banned forced marriages and bride kidnappings through a law that came into effect on Tuesday in a fresh bid to protect women's rights. Bride kidnappings have been outlawed in ...

In Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, two countries in central Asia between Russia and China, there is a so-called tradition of bride kidnapping. Young women are abducted, often in broad daylight, and taken ...

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