News and press releases

A training seminar dedicated to the monitoring of media coverage during elections concluded in Astana on 20 November 2018. The event was organized by the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan (CEC) in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Modernizing the system to select judges and activities of the High Judicial Council in Kazakhstan were the topic of an OSCE-supported international roundtable discussion held in Astana on 16 November 2018

The sixth meeting of the Working Group on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission took place on 16 November 2018 in Bishkek. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek in close co-operation with the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission...

An OSCE-organized workshop for 20 representatives of civil society on the Open Government Partnership (OGP) initiative took place on 15 November in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

The last in an annual series of five OSCE-supported training seminars on human rights protection mechanisms concluded in the Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, on 9 November 2018...

Women’s contribution to the sustainable development of rural areas in Kazakhstan was the focus of the First Rural Women’s Forum which concluded on 9 November 2018 in Astana...

The role of new technologies in the electoral process was the focus of an international conference organized by the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan with support from the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, in Kazakhstan’s capital on 1 and 2 November 2018. The conference was held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Commission...