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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE launches series of anti-trafficking seminars for law-enforcement officers and social workers across Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 22 July 2016
Some 35 law-enforcement officers and social workers took part in the first in a series of five training seminars on anti-trafficking practices and procedures on 22 July 2016 in Kostanay with other workshops to be conducted in Almaty, Astana, Karaganda and Shymkent later this year...
OSCE Programme Office supports public hearings on libel and slander legislation in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 July 2016
ASTANA, 21 July 2016 – Some 25 Supreme and Regional Court judges, lawyers, journalists, media experts as well as representatives of the diplomatic corps and civil society today in Astana participated in OSCE-supported public hearings on the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan’s Decree on the “Application of legislation on protecting the honour, dignity and business reputation in judicial practice”...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion implementing Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 July 2016
A roundtable discussion on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan took place in Astana on 15 July 2016...
OSCE promotes role of public councils in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 July 2016
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a national public hearing on combatting torture in the penal system, organized by the Public Council under the Interior Ministry in Astana, Kazakhstan on 15 July 2016...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on introduction of Pollutant Release and Transfer Register in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 14 July 2016
ASTANA, 14 July 2016 – The introduction of the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) in Kazakhstan was the focus of a roundtable discussion organized in Astana today by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in partnership with the Energy Ministry’s Information and Analytical Centre of Environment Protection and the UN Development Programme in Kazakhstan...
OSCE co-organizes meeting on implementing international human rights recommendations in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 July 2016
Some 40 national experts took part in a meeting organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Charter for Human Rights Public Foundation in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 13 July 2016, on implementing human rights recommendations from UN bodies...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on public participation in environmental decision-making in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 July 2016
PAVLODAR, Kazakhstan, 12 July 2016 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on public participation mechanisms in environmental decision-making took place today in Pavlodar for some 25 representatives of the national and local government offices, the private sector, civil society and academia...