News and press releases

An OSCE-supported training seminar on the topic of energy efficiency for school teachers took place on 9 November 2015 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The event was the last in a series of three sessions that trained over 300 secondary school teachers from Astana, Almaty and the Eastern Kazakhstan region...

Four students from the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) learnt about the work of OSCE and its institutions during a two-day study visit to Vienna, which concluded on 6 November 2015...

ASTANA, 5 November 2015- An OSCE-supported training seminar for election observers and members of the Central Election Commission (CEC) took place today in Astana...

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a training seminar in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 5 November 2015 for social workers on providing care for victims of human trafficking...

ASTANA, 4 November 2015 – The concluding seminar in a series of seven OSCE-supported two-day training events for judges from regional courts on good practices in dealing with human trafficking cases began today in Astana...

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the second presentation of the Report on the Situation with Human Rights in Kazakhstan by the Human Rights Commission under the President on 30 October 2015, this time in Shymkent, southern Kazakhstan. The report covers the period from April 2014 to April 2015, and was published in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages with the OSCE’s support...

SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 30 October 2015- An OSCE-supported training seminar on mechanisms of human rights protection for government and law-enforcement bodies, civil society groups and judges concluded today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...