"The bill's passage came despite urgent calls from international rights groups - including Access Now, Civil Rights Defenders, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Partnership for Human Rights, and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee - for lawmakers to reject the legislation, saying it would "blatantly violate" Kazakhstan's human rights commitments."
""Adopting an 'LGBT propaganda ban' would blatantly violate Kazakhstan's international human rights commitments, including children's rights to education, health, and information," the group of seven organisations said in a statement published on 11 November. "Discriminatory and rights-violating provisions like those being proposed have no place in any democratic society, which Kazakhstan aspires to be." The bill's second reading was subsequently approved by senators on 18 December and went to Tokayev for signing into law, which he did so on 30 December."
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a Russian-style anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda bill into law on 30 December. The legislation bans information that promotes "nontraditional sexual relations and pedophilia" in public spaces and media. Violations carry fines up to 144,500 Kazakh Tenge and up to 10 days' detention. The lower chamber passed the bill in November and the Senate approved the second reading on 18 December. International rights groups warned the measure would blatantly violate Kazakhstan's international human rights commitments and harm children's rights to education, health, and information. LGBTQ+ people in Kazakhstan lack protections against discrimination and hate crimes despite decriminalisation in 1998.
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