Kazakhstan: feminist organization refused service by venue for activity
Event- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Initial Date
- Oct 7, 2024
- Event Description
Since 7 October 2024, Kazakh feminist and LGBTI initiative “Feminita” have been hosting a Lesbian Kurultai (council), to mark the 10th anniversary of the initiative’s work in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Lesbian Kurultai brought together a community of queer women and allies from Central Asian countries and beyond to discuss intersectional agendas, including environmental rights issues and their impact of various groups of women.
On the night of 7 October, directly before the start of the event, the venue that Feminita had booked and paid for to host the Kurultai, refused to host the human rights group after allegedly receiving letters from the Akimat (local government) of the city of Almaty urging the venue to refuse service to Feminita. When Feminita was able to identify a friendly location to host the Kurultai in, this venue experienced whole day power outages.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of expression
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- NGO
- SOGI rights defender
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Non-state
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 43.28618565008429
Longitude: 77.02314151931284
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 7 October 2024, the venue that Kazakh feminist and LGBTIQ+ organization "Feminita" paid to rent for their event refused to host the organization after the venue allegedly received letters from the local government of urging the venue to refuse service to "Feminita" in Almaty, Kazakhstan.