The total number of unemployed people in Kyrgyzstan has reached 104,700, with the overall unemployment rate at 3.7 percent. These figures were announced by Kamchybek Dosmatov, Deputy Minister of Labor, Social Security, and Migration, during the Second National Forum «Employment, Skills, and the Future of Labor: Strengthening Public Employment Services and Informal Education in the Kyrgyz Republic.»
Women from Central Asia are being recruited into Georgia’s surrogacy market through social media, adding a new labor channel to an industry already under pressure from foreign demand and inadequate supervision. A University of Oxford study published in Mobilities identifies Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, U
Kyrgyzstan is planning to legalize the hookah business. If the relevant draft law is adopted, the annual license fee for establishments could amount to around 150,000 soms. This was announced during a meeting of the Zhogorku Kenesh Committee on Labor, Social Security, Migration, Women’s and Family Affairs, where amendments to legislation were discussed.
Kyrgyzstan has drafted legislative amendments aimed at simplifying the process for foreign citizens to obtain residence permits. Proposed changes to the law “On External Migration” were submitted for public discussion on April 27. The bill proposes eliminating the mandatory requirement to obtain imm
At least 58 violations of migration laws were identified in issyk-Kul region during the Illegal-2026 operation. The Department of Internal Affairs of the region reported.
The Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Belarus signed a number of documents following the official visit of Belarusian Prime Minister Alexander Turchin to Kyrgyzstan.
At least 1,067 tons of food aid donated by the Russian Federation to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have arrived in Kyrgyzstan.
From Heart to Heart social and information fair will be held in Bishkek on May 16 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., timed to the Mother’s Day in the Kyrgyz Republic and World Hypertension Day, marked annually on May 17.
A Career Guidance Center in Bishkek helps reduce unemployment. Talantbek Zhekshenov, head of the capital’s Employment Promotion Department, told reporters.
The Zhogorku Kenesh (Parliament) has approved the new composition of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums (CEC) of the Kyrgyz Republic.
A new joint project is being launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European Union aimed at combating child and forced labor in Turkmenistan. Its focus is primarily on the country’s cotton sector, which has long faced criticism from human rights groups and international comp
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is considering several possible causes behind the explosion at a Kazzinc plant in Ust-Kamenogorsk that killed three people. The incident occurred on the morning of May 5, when a dust collection unit exploded inside one of the plant’s workshops, tr