Baseline Study: GENDER ASPECTS OF MEDIA ACTIVITY
In KYRGYZ REPUBLIC: Challenges and Recommendations
The publication provides an overview of the constitutional framework, international standards and international and foreign best practices, as well as the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic.
best international and foreign practices, as well as the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic,
which establish legal conditions for ensuring protection of the rights of women and girls with disabilities from gender discrimination and violence.
with disabilities from gender discrimination and violence.
This training manual is designed for judges, prosecutors, lawyers,
social and other services involved in protecting the rights of women and girls with disabilities who have been subjected to violence in the Kyrgyz Republic.
The brochure “Disability in the Media” was developed by the United Nations Development Programme in the Kyrgyz Republic in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, Information, Sports, and Youth Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic, the community of people with disabilities, journalists, and representatives of UN agencies, and approved by the Council for Persons with Disabilities under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic.
The main goal of this publication is to raise awareness among media workers (journalists, specialists in communications, bloggers, and others) about disability representation in the media. This brochure reveals the concept of disability and presents different approaches to its perception, introducing readers to the human rights-based approach to people with disabilities and the key principles of disability representation in different media resources.
This publication is intended for a wide audience; it is aimed at changing society's attitude towards people with disabilities and creating a truly inclusive society.
The Kyrgyz Republic is a mountainous lower-middle-income country that aspires to
accelerate socioeconomic development for higher levels of human development and
wellbeing of citizens, economic prosperity by 2040, and net zero climate neutrality by 2050.
Due to it being landlocked, small in size, and with low levels of industrialization and trade
dependency, the country is vulnerable to external shocks.
The CCA Update for the Kyrgyz Republic provides an overall assessment of key gaps and trends in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development1 since the formulation of the 2016 CCA. The intention of the CCA Update is not to reassess those aspects of the 2016 CCA that continue to be valid, including the assessment of the human rights protection framework and mechanisms of the Kyrgyz Republic, but to focus primarily on new data, analyses and issues that have emerged in the last three years and which can inform UN programming for the remaining period of the UNDAF 2018-2022.
Standard Model for Gender
mainstreaming Process
(Op1)
This study seeks to explore issues of inclusion from a gender perspective in relation to women and girls living with Inclusion from a gender perspective in relation to women and girls living in Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan.
