News and press releases

The first in a series of OSCE-supported training seminar for rural and small town municipalities aimed at strengthening local self-government across the country was held on 1 August 2014 in Aktobe, Western Kazakhstan...

The Community Security Initiative (CSI) team in Kyrgyzstan on 31 July 2014 presented the OSCE-prepared guidebook on “Preventing Terrorism and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that lead to Terrorism: A Community-Policing Approach”...

Building the capacity of civil society to address human rights violations committed in the business sphere was the aim of an OSCE-supported training seminar that took place in Almaty on 31 July 2014...

Head of the Human Rights Department of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Snježana Bokulić visited prominent human rights defender and journalist Azimjan Askarov in prison in Bishkek on 30 July 2014.

A summer environmental camp "Borderline Commonwealth: Issyk-Kul 2014" organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the State Border Service was opened on 25 July 2014 on the lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan...

Armenia’s Draft Law on Identification of and Assistance to the Victims of Human Trafficking was in focus of a discussion held by the OSCE Office in Yerevan for government officials and representatives of civil society from 25 to 27 July 2014 in Aghveran, Armenia...

The safety of hydraulic structures was the focus of a two-day training seminar for more than 30 representatives of the Water Resources Committee and the Emergency Situations Ministry of Kazakhstan, which concluded on 29 July 2014 in Astana. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana...