Summary

The Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights visited Kyrgyzstan from 23 May to 3 June 2022. In the present report, which is based on his visit, the Special Rapporteur highlights how strengthened social protection (including by improving the child allowances scheme), better wages and, more broadly, decent jobs, as well as the gradual elimination of child labour and better-quality education, can allow the country to move away from an economic model highly dependent on the extractive and tourism industries and on remittances from migrant workers. He also recommends, inter alia, implementing Law No. 38 (2008) on the rights and guarantees of persons with disabilities and adopting a law on social housing.