these include the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women cedaw beijing declaration and platform for action millennium development goals and the recently adopted sustainable development goals in the government of kazakhstan developed its strategy for gender equality for which served as the main reference for the state gender policy for the past decade in the parliament enacted two important laws the law on state guarantees of equal rights and equal opportunities for men and women and the law on the prevention of domestic violence notwithstanding many planned elements of the gender equality strategy for were only partly implemented often due to uneven presence of indicators and government capacities to measure realtime progress in tenns of gender equality