News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Transport matters in focus at OSCE meeting in Astana
Publishing date: 12 October 2009
ASTANA, 12 October 2009- A conference to prepare for the 18th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum opened today in Astana with 170 participants discussing how to promote good governance at border crossings, and improve land transportation security...
Lectures in southern Kazakhstan highlight OSCE principles and values
Publishing date: 8 October 2009
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 8 October 2009- A second series of lectures about OSCE principles and values, as well as Kazakhstan's commitments and priorities ahead of its 2010 OSCE Chairmanship, continued today with a lecture in Shymkent...
OSCE Centre in Astana holds training course on media self-regulation
Publishing date: 24 September 2009
ASTANA, 24 September 2009- Journalism students learned about the importance of ethics as a pillar of media self-regulation at a training course supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana today...
OSCE Centre opens Aarhus Centre in the Caspian Sea region
Publishing date: 21 September 2009
ASTANA, 21 September 2009- The OSCE Centre in Astana, along with state and non-governmental partners, signed today a memorandum of understanding on the opening and operation of an Aarhus Centre in Atyrau in western Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre co-hosts high-level roundtable discussion on prosecutorial reforms
Publishing date: 18 September 2009
ASTANA, 18 September 2009- A high-level roundtable discussion on reforms to the role of Kazakhstan's Office of the Prosecutor General in civil and commercial proceedings took place in Astana today...
OSCE Centre in Astana to co-organize series of community policing seminars
Publishing date: 24 August 2009
OSKEMEN, Kazakhstan, 24 August 2009- The OSCE Centre in Astana, together with the International Kazakhstan Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law, launched the first of five training seminars today...
Imprisonment of journalist violates Kazakhstan's commitments, says OSCE media freedom representative
Publishing date: 11 August 2009
VIENNA, 11 August 2009- Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today that the three-year prison term handed down to Ramazan Yesergepov violated international standards and OSCE commitments on media freedom...