News and press releases

Some 40 officials from governmental institutions, law enforcement agencies and civil society associations attended the launch of a Community Policing Project in Karaganda on 27 November 2019. The project,which emphasizes the joint responsibility of the State and civilians in ensuring public security, is supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan and Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs....

An OSCE-supported three-day training course on countering transnational crime and identification of potential foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) concluded on 28 November 2019 in Aktau, Kazakhstan...

The prevention and tackling of violence against women and girls was the focus of an international conference, which concluded on 27 November 2019 in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. The conference was conducted within the framework of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence.

The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan supported a workshop on the application of environmental legislation and compliance with the provisions of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) on 25 November 2019 in Semey, Eastern Kazakhstan...

The annual OSCE-supported International Youth Legal Forum, focusing on the link between human rights and transnational threats to security, concluded on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...

An OSCE-supported seminar on the presentation of manuals on how to work in the rehabilitation of returning foreign terrorist fighters and their families took place on 22 November 2019 in Nur-Sultan...

An OSCE-supported sub-regional workshop under the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) project on improving mining and tailings safety, with a special attention to transboundary implications, concluded on 21 November 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.