News and press releases

The Head of the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, Ambassador György Szabó, received a certificate of appreciation for the promotion of human rights in Kazakhstan on 7 December 2017.

A one-week modular training course on collective action, the role of regulatory impact assessments and anti-corruption proofing of draft legislation for more than 40 representatives of public sector, business community and civil society concluded on 8 December 2017 in Astana.

The OSCE-supported Third Defenсe Lawyers Forum dedicated to the important issues of reforming the legal profession took place in Almaty on 8 December 2017.

A team of experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was in Albania from 4 to 8 December 2017 for a consultation and planning visit as part of ODIHR’s Support to Elections in the Western Balkans project. The ODIHR team met with senior officials from the

The OSCE’s activities in combating the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) are an important contribution to the global fight against organized crime and terrorism, said speakers at a side event in in Vienna on 8 December 2017, on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council.

The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) organized the first “Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education for Integration and Sustainable Development”, in co-operation with the ORLEU National Centre for Professional

Strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kazakhstan to counter terrorist financing was the aim of a three-day train-the-trainers course organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) Global Programme against Money Laundering, at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna from 5 to 7 December 2017.