News and press releases

Gender mainstreaming the work of local governments and election campaigns was the focus of an OSCE-supported training seminar for some 45 high-level local government executives and local district legislators from Kazakhstan’s Atyrau Region on 21 June 2017...

An OSCE-supported workshop for some 30 judges and regional court employees from Kazakhstan on best practices in combating corruption in the judiciary concluded on 19 June 2017 in Astana...

Strengthening the capacity of government experts from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to resolve and investigate kidnapping situations was the focus of a four-day training course organized by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) with the support of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and in co-operation with the Spanish National Police from 5 to 8 June 2017 at the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre (CARICC) in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

Some 35 students from the five Central Asian countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan will attend an OSCE-supported annual summer school in Almaty from 5 June to 16 June 2017 on methods and tools for assessing and monitoring water and land resources in the Central Asian region...

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Parliament of Kazakhstan co-organized a roundtable discussion followed by an expert dialogue in Astana on 1 June 2017 on the application of the law on the access to information...

An OSCE-supported Canine Explosive Search Training Programme co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the United States Embassy in Kazakhstan concluded on 24 May 2017 in Astana...

An OSCE-supported seminar for lawyers and media lawyers on effective legal protection against hate speech took place in Almaty on 29 May 2017...