News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports Shu-Talas Water Basin Council meeting in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 26 July 2017
An OSCE-supported regular meeting of the Shu-Talas Water Basin Council, followed by a training seminar on climate change adaptation measures, took place on 26 July 2017 in Taraz, southern Kazakhstan...
OSCE promotes implementation of Istanbul Protocol to help torture victims in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 24 July 2017
An OSCE-supported four-day training seminar titled “Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Inhuman Treatment in Accordance with the Istanbul Protocol” started on 24 July 2017 in Astana...
OSCE needs assessment explores how to support Kazakhstan in facilitating regional trade
Publishing date: 14 July 2017
ASTANA, 14 July 2017 – A three-day needs assessment mission to explore how the OSCE can support Kazakhstan in facilitating regional trade concluded today in Astana...
OSCE supports platform for promoting best practices and innovations for a green economy in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 July 2017
ASTANA, 12 July 2017 – An OSCE-supported international forum on the Green Bridge Partnership Programme (GBPP), a platform for promoting best practices and innovations for a green economy, started today in Astana...
OSCE conducts multi-stakeholder dialogue on anti-corruption efforts in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 11 July 2017
ASTANA, 11 July 2017 – A two-day anti-corruption needs assessment mission conducted by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana concludes today. The mission was held in the framework of a regional OSCE extra-budgetary project aimed at strengthening anti-corruption efforts in Central Asia...
Countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction focus of OSCE workshop in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
A two-day workshop on implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR) on countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Kazakhstan concluded on 30 June, 2017 in Astana...
OSCE trains Kazakhstan’s border service officers in risk profiling
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
The fifth in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist sixteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats by using risk profiling at border checkpoints concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 30 June 2017...