News and press releases

Implementing gender mainstreaming in the work of local governments and election campaigns was the focus of an OSCE-supported training seminar for some 40 high-level local government executives and local district legislators from South Kazakhstan region in Shymkent on 12 May 2016...

ASTANA, 12 May 2016 – Current trends and challenges in ensuring the rights of the individual in modern society are the main topics of an OSCE-supported international conference in the framework of annual ”Shaikenov Readings”, which began today in Astana...

A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar for members of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for Preventing Torture and Ill-treatment on practical aspects of NPM implementation began in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan on 6 May 2016...

ARNASAI, Kazakhstan, 4 May 2016 – The first in a series of five OSCE-supported training seminars for women entrepreneurs working in the field of “green” technology began today in Arnasai village, Kazakhstan, with the aim of building their capacity in the sphere of effective horticulture, by taking into account modern energy and water-saving practices...

The second in a series of OSCE-supported two-day training seminars to raise awareness on the proper handling of hazardous chemicals and obsolete pesticides concluded on 29 April 2016 in Aralsk, Kazakhstan...

The first in a series of five OSCE-supported two-day training seminars for more than 30 law-enforcement officers from 14 regions of Kazakhstan on investigative techniques and methods to counter trafficking in human beings started in Karaganda on 29 April 2016...

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 28 April 2016 – The first of ten OSCE-supported two-day seminars for some 30 officials and journalists on the implementation of Kazakhstan’s laws on “Access to Information” and “Public Councils” began today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...