The Court ruled that children should be given patronymics from birth to protect them from harassment and bullying. However, citizens over the age of 18 may choose to change their patronymic to a patronymic.
The Constitutional Court of Kyrgyzstan decided that adults can choose to use middle names based on their mother’s name and not their father, in a surprising decision for her gender equality in the traditionally patriarchal central Asian country.
Influenced by the Russian Empire and the Soviet era, most people in Kyrgyzstan use Russian-style patronymics: middle names derived from their father’s name.
But activist Altin Kapalova challenged that rule in court and continued to appeal until it reached the Supreme Court, which last week partially ruled in her favor, she wrote on Facebook.
The Court ruled that children should be given patronymics from birth to protect them from harassment and bullying. But citizens over the age of 18 can choose to change their patronymic to a patronymic.
Kapalova, who runs a museum of feminist art, said she would seek further legal changes in the mostly Muslim country of 7 million people to ensure a child can have a matronly name from birth.
Source :Skai
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