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OSCE Centre in Almaty to launch project on development of economic courts
ALMATY, 19 March 2003 - An OSCE-led project in Kazakhstan aimed at developing economic courts in the country will be launched with a special training session next week. The project will include a training programme for judges from...
OSCE Centre in Almaty rejects allegations over Duvanov case
ALMATY, 19 March 2003 - The OSCE Centre in Almaty rejected allegations that OSCE representatives had referred to evidence that Kazakh journalist and human rights activist Sergei Duvanov was "guilty of rape". On 11 March, a press release from...
OSCE Chairman-in-Office appoints former Finnish President Ahtisaari as personal envoy for Central Asia
THE HAGUE, 13 March 2003 - The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Netherlands Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has appointed the former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, as his personal envoy for the Central Asian region. This region consists...
Almaty conference to discuss economic integration in the EU as a model for Central Asia
ALMATY, 27 February 2003 - An international conference co-organized by the OSCE in Kazakhstan next week will discuss the experience of economic integration within the European Union (EU). The conference, entitled "Economic...
Media seminar in Almaty to discuss defamation
ALMATY, 25 February 2003 - Defamation in the media and international approaches to the issue will be the focus of a two-day seminar that will start in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Thursday, 27 February. The seminar is organized by the OSCE Centre in...
Civil society representatives meet in Almaty to prepare information campaign on abolition of death penalty
ALMATY, 21 February 2003 - An information campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in Kazakhstan will be the main theme of an interactive training programme to be organized in Almaty next week. The programme, to take place between 25 and...
International conference to be held in Almaty on improved human rights in criminal process
ALMATY, 14 February 2003 - An international conference aimed at identifying ways of strengthening the procedural guarantees of all parties involved in criminal process is being co-organized by the OSCE on 17 February in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE observers visit detained Kazakh opposition journalist
WARSAW, 19 December 2002 - A group of OSCE observers have met the opposition journalist Sergey Duvanov, who is being held in pre-trial detention on charges of having raped a minor, to assess the conditions of his detention...
OSCE concerned about detention of leading Kazakh human rights defender and journalist
VIENNA/WARSAW, 7 November 2002 - The two OSCE institutions dealing with human rights and media freedom today jointly expressed their concern about the detention of Sergei Duvanov, a journalist and human rights defender who...
OSCE eager to pursue fruitful co-operation with Kazakh authorities, says Chairman-in-Office
ALMATY, 31 October 2002 - Completing a two-day visit to Kazakhstan, OSCE's Chairman-in-Office, Portuguese Foreign Minister, Antonio Martins da Cruz stressed the importance of the OSCE's co-operation with Kazakhstan...