News and press releases

The challenges and prospects for the freedoms of expression and of the media were the focus of a World Press Freedom Day conference organized by the Tajik Media Council and other media associations, and supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan and international media donors on 3 May 2016 in Dushanbe...

The first in a series of OSCE-supported training courses for representatives of the Interior Ministry, Prosecutor and Ombudsman offices and civil society on the human rights of persons in police custody began on 4 May 2016 in Garm city, central Tajikistan...

Developing practical mechanisms of co-operation between law enforcement bodies and civil society in protection of domestic violence victims was the topic of a one-day workshop organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan in co-operation with the Interior Ministry and local authorities on 4 May 2016. The workshop was held in the premises of Djaihun Women Resource Centre, Khatlon region...

Tajikistan’s National Action Plan on implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540, which was supported by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan as a way of enhancing the country’s chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear security, was presented to representatives of the international community in Dushanbe on 28 April 2016.

DUSHANBE, 26 April 2016 – The OSCE Office in Tajikistan held an open day event in Dushanbe today, inviting some 45 governmental officials from state agencies and representatives of civil society, the international and community and OSCE participating States to learn about the Mission’s work in gender equality in the country...

DUSHANBE, 22 April 2016 – Twenty-five officers from the Interior Ministry, State Committee on National Security, Customs Service, Border Troops, Committee on Emergency Situation and the Agency on Radiation safety of Tajikistan completed in Dushanbe today a week-long workshop on radiation safety awareness. The event was organized by the OSCE Office in Tajikistan...

Twenty Tajik and Kyrgyz border guards completed on 22 April 2016 in Dushanbe a three-week OSCE operational planning training course, conducted in the framework of the third phase of the OSCE Office’s patrol programming and leadership project...