News and press releases

An OSCE-supported three-day training seminar “Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Inhuman Treatment in Accordance with the Istanbul Protocol” concluded on 23 June 2018 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan.

ALMATY, 26 June 2018- Labour migration practices, with the aim to leverage the economic potential of migrant workers in Central Asia and in the Russian Federation, were discussed at a two-day event supported by the OSCE and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which concluded today in Astana...

Innovative methods and tools for analysing and monitoring water and land resources in Central Asia were the focus of an eleven-day OSCE-supported annual summer school which concluded on 22 June 2018 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Some 25 Master and PhD students as well as junior university teachers and researchers from the Central Asian countries and Afghanistan took part...

An OSCE-supported international conference entitled Advocates 2018. Improving the Quality of Legal Services concluded on 16 June in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

A five-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Service and Prosecutor’s Office officials to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks and to apply sanctions pursuant to relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions concluded on 15 June 2018 in Astana...

Current challenges and solutions for the ensuring the rule of law topped the agenda of this year’s annual Shaikenov Readings, which took the form of an OSCE-supported international conference on 15 June 2018 in Astana...

An OSCE Programme Office in Astana-supported seminar, co-organized with NGO Legal Media Centre, on the protection of freedom of expression and policies to counter hate speech on the Internet took place on 12 June 2018 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan...