[{"bbox": [96, 153, 1135, 552], "category": "Text", "text": "education system's insufficient attention to essential 21st-century skills limits young people's capacity to effectively navigate these challenges. Gender disparities persist in Kyrgyzstan, affecting girls' access to education and future opportunities. They face challenges leaving secondary school and transitioning into adulthood, unlike boys who have more favourable prospects. While adolescent boys have lower upper secondary enrolment, their significantly lower NEET rates suggest they often transition into work or training before completing upper secondary education. This gender gap is influenced by enduring gender stereotypes that limit women's roles and discriminatory traditions re-emerging in some parts of Kyrgyzstan. The increased regulation of civil society organizations has a detrimental impact, particularly on youth groups, activists, and organisations. Vague definitions in laws like the Law \"On Measures to Prevent Harm to Children's Health, Physical, Intellectual, Mental, Spiritual and Moral Development in the KR\" and draft Laws \"On Mass Media,\" \"Foreign Representatives,\" and \"Non-Commercial Organisations\" may lead to arbitrary interpretations, potentially banning critical information for children and adolescents. Young people increasingly choose not to formalise their organisations, opting for safe online spaces for collaboration and information sharing. However, prosecution of active bloggers and media outlets discourages youth engagement in civic activities, hindering both formalised and non-formalized youth groups' access to funding and preventing their empowerment."}, {"bbox": [85, 593, 341, 623], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.2 Problem Analysis"}, {"bbox": [96, 638, 1135, 1114], "category": "Text", "text": "With regards to human rights, despite the importance of the NCPT and the Ombudsperson Institute in protecting and promoting human rights in Kyrgyzstan, both human rights institutions face challenges. The NCPT, established in 2012, has a positive record of advancing the fight against torture inhumane treatment and all types of places of deprivation of liberty as defined by the OPCAT provisions. However, it is confronted with weak capacity and insufficient human and financial resources allocated to it through state budget as noted by various UN human rights mechanisms. These factors negatively impact on the NCPT institutional capacity to implement its mandate in full compliance with OPCAT requirements and hinders its ability to advocate for the implementation of its recommendations at the national and local level and, to a certain extent, to create political leverage that would facilitate the implementation of its recommendations. The Ombudsperson Institute of the Kyrgyz Republic, created on the basis of the 2002 Law on Akyikatchy, has a broad mandate to protect and prevent violations of human rights enshrined in national law and international treaties. However, the Law is not fully compliant with the Paris Principles. In 2012, GANHRI and its Sub-Committee on Accreditation accredited the Ombudsperson Institute with status \"B\" and provided a number of recommendations to ensure compliance of the Ombudsperson Institute with the Paris Principles. These recommendations remain relevant today. The Ombudsperson Institute faces budgetary and resource-related constraints, compounded by institutional weaknesses also resulting from gaps in the legal framework which require legislative changes to be addressed. Engagement with civil society is a specific area recognised as requiring attention, through the establishment of more formalized, regular and systemic working relations between the institution and NGOs.⁵"}, {"bbox": [96, 1141, 1134, 1249], "category": "Text", "text": "Moreover, in Kyrgyzstan, there are about 193 thousand citizens with disabilities both mental and physical. According to the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, over 90 per cent of people of employable age in this category do not have work. In the country, it is uncommon for persons with disabilities to be socialised and employed, making such instances exceptions rather than the standard practice⁶."}, {"bbox": [96, 1274, 1135, 1435], "category": "Text", "text": "It should be noted that improved and more regular engagement with civil society does not necessarily require legal changes. A planned capacity assessment, expected to be conducted in 2024, will provide additional indications of priority areas for capacity strengthening and institutional development of the Ombudsperson of Kyrgyzstan. The general population of Kyrgyzstan will benefit from enhanced human rights protection. Key stakeholders affected by the issues addressed by this action include: the NCPT and the Ombudsperson Institute of the Kyrgyz Republic as main beneficiaries, the Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) as the key state institution appointing the Ombudsperson"}, {"bbox": [85, 1460, 1144, 1560], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ See International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Report and Recommendations of the Session of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, 26-30 March 2012, available at: www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/NHRI/GANHRI/SCA_MARCH_2012_FINAL_REPORT_ENG_WIT H ANNEXURES.pdf"}, {"bbox": [85, 1580, 407, 1605], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ Institute for war and peace reporting. CABAR"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1143, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 28"}]