2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Kazakhstan, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 28 February 2005.
Section 5 of the report contains a paragraph on the status of women in Kazakhstan, and a subsection on trafficking.

2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Kazakhstan, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State, 25 February 2004.
This report examines human rights in Kazakhstan. There are separate sections on women and on trafficking in persons.

Fanning the Flames: How Human Rights Abuses are Fueling the AIDS Epidemic in Kazakhstan, Human Rights Watch, June 2003.
This report describes the situation of HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan and the connection between police abuse of prostitutes and intravenous drug users and the increase in HIV/AIDS cases.

Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2003 (Events of 2002), International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 24 June 2003. (PDF, 13 pages).
This report discusses the situation of general human rights in Kazakhstan.

Integration of the Human Rights of Women and the Gender Perspective - Violence Against Women, Addendum 1, Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 27 Feb. 2003. (PDF, 435). 
This report has information regarding rape ,trafficking and domestic violence against women in Kazakhstan. Information on Kazakhstan can be found on page 194.

Survey of Legislative Frameworks for Combating Trafficking in Persons, Kristi Severance, American Bar Association, Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI), January 2003.
This report presents an overview of anti-trafficking legislation in twenty-one countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including Kazakhstan. The report discusses the scope of the problem and the role of the UN Trafficking Protocol and other human rights standards in evaluating anti-trafficking legislation.

A Human Rights Report on Trafficking of Persons, Especially Women and Children, The Protection Project, March 2002.
This report provides background and case examples of trafficking in Kazakhstan. The report also describes the domestic and international law governing trafficking in Kazakhstan.

Epidemiological Facts Sheets on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections: Kazakhstan, UNAIDS, WHO and UNICEF, 2002. (PDF, 13 pages).
This report provides statistical and behavioral information on HIV/AIDS in Kazakhstan.

 A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 19 June 2000. (PDF, 91 pages).
Information about Kazakhstan can be found on page 33.

 Women 2000 - An Investigation into the Status of Women's Rights in Central and South-Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, 5 November 2000. (PDF, 15 pages).
This is a resource for researching women's rights in Kazakstan. The report discusses domestic violence, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation in detail, citing legal provisions and statistics when possible

 Country Report: Kazakhstan, International Women's Rights Action Watch, Initial Report, CEDAW/C/KAZ/1, 26 January 2000.
This report describes Kazakhstan's compliance obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

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