Training course on responding to domestic violence held by OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, 25 April 2012 – A three-day training seminar organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan on the criminal justice response to domestic violence began in Tashkent today.

The course, taught by experts from Italy, Israel and Ukraine, brings together 25 academic staff of the Police Academy, criminal justice police investigators, police officers and representatives of Uzbekistan’s Interior Ministry. The participants will have an opportunity to share experience and learn about practices in dealing with domestic violence in other OSCE participating States. The electronic version of the OSCE publication “Bringing Security Home: Combating Violence against Women in the OSCE region, a Compilation of Good Practices” was distributed to participants.

"This training course is an excellent forum to update knowledge about such a serious issue as domestic violence and emphasizes the need to increase capacities in the police forces and other law enforcement agencies of Uzbekistan to better protect victims of gender-related violence,” said Ambassador Gyorgy Szabo, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan at the start of the seminar.

The training course is part of a larger co-operation project with the Police Academy in Uzbekistan.