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OSCE Centre in Bishkek conducts training seminar on provisions of the Aarhus Convention
Publishing date: 18 November 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
BISHKEK, 18 November 2015- The Aarhus Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the Kyrgyz State agency for environmental protection and forestry today trained 30 representatives of human rights organizations, environmental NGOs, legal consultants, lawyers and university lecturers on the principles of the Aarhus Convention, with a particular focus on justice on environmental matters...
OSCE Office in Yerevan holds workshop on implementing Aarhus Convention
Publishing date: 5 December 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Environmental activities
The implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the context of recent constitutional and legal developments in Armenia was the theme of a workshop held by the OSCE office in Yerevan on 2 December 2016 in co-operation with Armenia’s Ministry of Nature Protection and the Centre of Economical-Legal Analysis (CELA)...
Environmental issues in Kazakhstan focus of OSCE-supported training seminar
Publishing date: 25 February 2019
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported a training seminar on conducting and monitoring public hearings as a tool for public participation in environmental decision making on 23 February 2019 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports annual meeting of Kazakhstan’s Aarhus Centres
Publishing date: 1 July 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ASTANA, 1 July 2015 – An OSCE-supported annual meeting of the Aarhus Centre representatives took place today in Astana...
OSCE supports training seminar on public participation mechanisms in environmental decision-making
Publishing date: 25 May 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the Pavlodar Aarhus Centre held the first in a series of three training seminars for some 20 government officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, political parties and the media on public participation mechanisms in environmental decision-making in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, on 21 May 2016...
Environmental awareness in focus at OSCE-supported events in Turkmenistan
Publishing date: 26 November 2015
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat
What we do: Environmental activities
TURKMENBASHI, Turkmenistan, 26 November 2015 – A series of OSCE-supported seminars held in six cities across Turkmenistan concluded today in Turkmenbashi, raising awareness about the Aarhus Convention, a key UN document on access to environmental information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters...
Local authorities, Aarhus Centre representatives from South-Eastern Europe discuss disaster risk reduction at OSCE-supported meeting in Sarajevo
Publishing date: 23 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
SARAJEVO, 23 September 2016 – A two-day regional disaster risk reduction meeting, organized by the Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities and hosted by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), concluded today in Sarajevo...
OSCE Centre opens Aarhus Centre in the Caspian Sea region
Publishing date: 21 September 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
ASTANA, 21 September 2009- The OSCE Centre in Astana, along with state and non-governmental partners, signed today a memorandum of understanding on the opening and operation of an Aarhus Centre in Atyrau in western Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports seminar on implementing Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Protocol in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 31 October 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Environmental activities
An OSCE-supported two-day training seminar on the application of the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) Protocol to the Aarhus Convention in Kazakhstan for some 60 representatives of government entities, the private sector, Aarhus Centres and environmental NGOs concluded on 31 October 2017 in Astana.
Aarhus Centres excel in community-based disaster risk reduction, concluded at OSCE-organized discussion in Vienna
Publishing date: 8 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Disaster risk reduction, Environmental activities
VIENNA, 8 April 2016 – More than 60 representatives of Aarhus Centres, local authorities, state agencies for emergency situations, NGOs and international and regional organizations concluded in Vienna today a two-year project on community-based disaster risk reduction...