News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE concludes series of anti-trafficking seminars for judges in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 November 2015
ASTANA, 4 November 2015 – The concluding seminar in a series of seven OSCE-supported two-day training events for judges from regional courts on good practices in dealing with human trafficking cases began today in Astana...
OSCE supports presentation of report on human rights in southern Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 November 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the second presentation of the Report on the Situation with Human Rights in Kazakhstan by the Human Rights Commission under the President on 30 October 2015, this time in Shymkent, southern Kazakhstan. The report covers the period from April 2014 to April 2015, and was published in the Kazakh, Russian and English languages with the OSCE’s support...
OSCE supports training seminar on human rights protection in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan, 30 October 2015- An OSCE-supported training seminar on mechanisms of human rights protection for government and law-enforcement bodies, civil society groups and judges concluded today in Shymkent, South Kazakhstan Region...
OSCE supports anti-corruption pilot programme for secondary schools students and teachers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 October 2015
An OSCE-supported training seminar for some 100 secondary school teachers on a new anti-corruption curriculum took place on 30 October 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The seminar was the last stage in a series of sessions for 150 school students at two Kazakh- and three Russian-speaking schools which were held earlier in Almaty...
OSCE Programme Office supports meeting of the Human Dimension Working Group in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 October 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana supported the joint meeting on 28 October 2015 in Astana of the working group and subgroups of the Consultative and Advisory Body on the Human Dimension under the Foreign Ministry...
OSCE trains border security officers in Kazakhstan in use of density metres
Publishing date: 26 October 2015
A two-day training seminar on the use of density metres for inspecting vehicles entering Kazakhstan began on 26 October 2015 in Kazygurt, near the city of Shymkent and close to the Uzbekistan border...
OSCE co-organizes international conference marking anniversaries of the Helsinki Final Act and the Astana Commemorative Declaration
Publishing date: 23 October 2015
ASTANA, 23 October 2015 – New risks and challenges to the security architecture in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space and implications for regional security were the focus of an OSCE-supported high-level international conference held today in Astana marking forty years of the Helsinki Final Act and the fifth anniversary of the Astana Commemorative Declaration...