News and press releases

Ensuring protection and promotion of rights of persons with disabilities was the focus of an OSCE supported online roundtable discussion concluded on 3 December 2021. The aim was to discuss issues related to the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) in Kazakhstan.

A three-day training course on basic business skills, organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, concluded on 27 November 2021 in Aralsk city in the Kyzylorda province of Kazakhstan. Some 15 rural women from the Aral Sea region attended the event.

A five-day OSCE-supported refresher course for 20 border service’s document security instructors concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 12 November 2021.

The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in co-operation with the National Commission for Women, Family and Demographic Policy under the President of Kazakhstan (National Commission) organized a training seminar for regional secretaries of the Commission in Nur-Sultan on 18 and 19 November 2021.

A working group meeting on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission (Commission) took place on 18 November 2021 in Almaty. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan (POiN) and the OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek (POiB) in close co-operation with the Commission.

An OSCE-supported seminar for international observers aimed to enhance participants’ knowledge of the rights and obligations of election observers took place in Nur-Sultan on 18 November 2021. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized the event in co-operation with the Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan (CEC) and supported by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).

Kazakhstan’s part of the working group on environmental protection under the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Chu-Talas Water Commission (Commission) held a meeting on 12 November 2021 in Almaty. The meeting was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Commission and the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan.