Debating Social Issues and Civil Society in Kazakhstan

Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University

Margarita Assenova, Jamestown Foundation

Anara Ibraeva, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law

The Central Asia Program will be debating Kazakhstan’s rapidly changing social landscape by discussing the relationship between social problems and civil society issues. The speakers will investigate the regional diversity, labor disputes and social problems, and human rights issues, and actions taken to address these issues by the central authorities.