News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Mobile Training Team trains Kyrgyz border officers in Bishkek to enhance their capacities to identify foreign terrorist fighters
Publishing date: 4 April 2019
The OSCE Mobile Training Team delivered an interactive training course on the identification of foreign terrorist fighters at the borders for 27 first- and second-line border officers and instructors of Kyrgyzstan’s border institutions from 2 to 4 April 2019 in Bishkek...
OSCE supports preventing radicalization and spread of extremist ideology through training of employees of security sector in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 25 March 2019
Representatives of the security sector of Kyrgyzstan concluded a five-day training course on “Violent Extremism and Radicalization leading to Terrorism as a Threat to National Security” on 22 March 2019, in Bishkek...
OSCE helps to promote 30 per cent gender quota in local councils of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 7 March 2019
A high-level OSCE-supported forum aimed at promoting the political rights of women in Kyrgyzstan, in particular at pushing forward the draft bill on establishing a 30 per cent gender quota in the nearly 500 local councils in Kyrgyzstan, was held on 6 March in Bishkek...
OSCE helps to promote gender equality in the security sector of Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 6 March 2019
Women from across the security and law enforcement sectors in Kyrgyzstan met at a national forum in Bishkek on 4 March to discuss ways of promoting gender equality in their fields of work.
World Customs Organization accredits Kyrgyzstan’s State Customs Service Training Centre with regional status
Publishing date: 21 December 2018
The Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, and the First Deputy Chairman of the State Customs Service of the Kyrgyz Republic (SCS), Shamil Berdaliev, signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the WCO Secretariat in Brussels on 19 December, thereby accrediting the SCS’s Training Centre as a WCO Regional Training Centre...
OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek participated in 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
Publishing date: 12 December 2018
The OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek organized a series of lectures aimed at raising awareness about consequences and criminal liability of bride kidnapping within the worldwide campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence...
Young policy advisers from Central Asian states enhance their policymaking skills
Publishing date: 10 December 2018
Young policy advisers from Central Asian ministries, state administrations, parliaments and academic and research institutions completed an OSCE-organized intensive four-day Young Policy Advisers Course on 30 November 2018 in Cholpon-Ata, Issyk-Kul. The course aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the role of policy professionals, while facilitating networking of young officials from Central Asia.