Toktayum Umetalieva (Kyrgyz: Токтайым Уметалиева) (born 4 April 1962) is a Kyrgyzstani physicist, political coordinator and activist. She was the only female candidate for the 2005 and 2009 Kyrgyzstani presidential elections.[1]

Biography

Born in the village of Leninpol in Talas District, she graduated from Kyrgyz State National University with a degree in physics in 1984. She worked a lecturer and became a director for an industrial and commercial company. In 1997, she was appointed chief editor of the newspaper Ай-Данек,[2] and she has published several papers on science and politics.[1] She has sat on numerous advisory councils in her native country for Jogorku Kenesh and has led the political party known as "Long Live Kyrgyzstan" ("Жашасын Кыргызстан").[2]

She heads the Association of Nongovernmental and Noncommercial Organizations and was running as an independent.[3]

Umetalieva been employed as a national coordinator for UNICEF and is associated with the World Bank. Between 2000 and 2010 she was the chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Association of Nongovernmental and Noncommercial Organizations. She stood as a presidential candidate for the 2009 elections to raise awareness of women's rights issues.[2] In 2011 she advocated the dismantling of the statue of Erkindik on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek.[1]

She is married and has three daughters: Mirgul, Nazgul, and Burulayim.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Токтайым Уметалиева". Knews (in Kyrgyz). Knews. August 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-08-08. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "Toktayum Umetalieva". Centralasien Grupperna. Centralasien.org. 2017-01-24. Archived from the original on 2021-08-08. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Q&A: Kyrgyzstan votes". BBC. July 8, 2005. Archived from the original on 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
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