News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Centre promotes efforts to integrate disabled women into society
Publishing date: 10 February 2011
ASTANA, 10 February 2011 – The OSCE Centre in Astana co-organized a high-level conference on gender equality and integration of women with disabilities into society that started in Astana today...
Head of OSCE Centre in Astana hopes for further democratic reforms at conference on Chairmanship
Publishing date: 26 January 2011
ALMATY, 10 December 2010- The Head of the OSCE Centre in Astana, Ambassador Alexandre Keltchewsky, said today he hopes that Kazakhstan's OSCE Chairmanship will boost Central Asian countries' commitment to further democratic reforms...
OSCE Centre holds international conference on freedom of peaceful assembly
Publishing date: 12 December 2010
ASTANA, 13 December 2010- A roundtable on international standards on freedom of peaceful assembly, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana, started today...
OSCE Centre in Astana supports conference for students on International Human Rights Day
Publishing date: 9 December 2010
ALMATY, 10 December 2010- Law students and young academics discussed Kazakhstan's international human rights commitments and mechanisms for their implementation at a university conference in Almaty today...
OSCE Centre in Astana promotes social accountability in extractive industries
Publishing date: 7 December 2010
KAGARANDA, Kazakhstan, 8 December 2010-Representatives of local administrations, the business community and non-governmental organizations are learning about corporate social accountability and good governance in mining industries at an OSCE-supported workshop that started today in eastern Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre in Astana raises awareness of disabilities as human rights issue
Publishing date: 25 November 2010
ASTANA, 25 June 2010- The rights of persons with disabilities were in focus during a workshop conducted today by the OSCE Centre in Astana in co-operation with Kazakhstan's...
Methods to teach environmental awareness in focus at course organized by OSCE Centre in Astana
Publishing date: 22 November 2010
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 22 November 2010- Promoting environmental education and sustainable development for schoolchildren through multimedia educational packages is the focus of two training seminars organized this week in Almaty by the OSCE Centre...