OSCE organizes regional training seminar on integration of labour migrants

A one-day training seminar on the integration of labour migrants started on 27 July 2015 in Uralsk, western Kazakhstan.

The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the Committee of Labour, Social Security and Migration under the Health and Social Development Ministry, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

ODIHR and IOM experts shared international practices with 25 representatives of local authorities and non-governmental organizations that work on the rights of migrants and their integration in the recipient country. The participants reviewed the legal and operational framework regulating the migrants’ access to the host country’s labour market and obligations of OSCE participating States related to labour migration. They also discussed the ways to apply the experience in counselling migrants of the Centre Sana Sezim working in southern Kazakhstan since 2001, to the Western Kazakhstan region.

The event is part of the OSCE Programme Office’s activities supporting Kazakhstan in promoting good governance in labour migration through capacity building and introducing good international practices.