BISHKEK -- Women's rights activists in Kyrgyzstan say they plan a public protest on International Women's Day next week, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The organizers told RFE/RL they would gather near the monument in Bishkek to Urkiya Salieva, a renowned female Communist activist in the 1920s.
They said they would focus on the socio-economic problems faced by Kyrgyz women, the government's gender policies, and domestic violence.
March 8 is marked as International Women's Day in the former Soviet Union.
The organizers told RFE/RL they would gather near the monument in Bishkek to Urkiya Salieva, a renowned female Communist activist in the 1920s.
They said they would focus on the socio-economic problems faced by Kyrgyz women, the government's gender policies, and domestic violence.
March 8 is marked as International Women's Day in the former Soviet Union.
