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OSCE Centre supports training for social workers of Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary institutions
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
BISHKEK, 30 September 2016 – Some 16 social workers of penitentiary institutions across Kyrgyzstan will complete a two-week capacity-building training course tomorrow, which is organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyz State Service for Execution of Punishment (SSEP)...
Safety of media workers and reporting on extremism in focus of OSCE workshop for journalists in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 30 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
CHON-KEMIN, Kyrgyzstan, 30 September 2016- A five–day workshop on safety and security measures to be taken by journalists and editors when reporting on matters related to violent extremism and radicalization started today in Chon-Kemin, Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE conference highlights role of the media in countering violent extremism in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism
BISHKEK, 28 September 2016- Eighty media experts, religious experts, journalists, civil society and government representatives from Bishkek, Osh and Batken gathered in the Kyrgyz capital today for a conference on the role of the media in countering violent extremism...
OSCE organizes International Police Reform Conference in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 September 2016
BISHKEK, 22 September 2016 – The development of the police system of Kyrgyzstan in the context of security sector reform is being discussed at a two-day international conference, which opened today in Bishkek...
OSCE helps Kyrgyzstan implement UN resolution on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
Publishing date: 16 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Countering terrorism
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 16 September 2016 – A two-day roundtable to discuss the National Action Plan (NAP) on the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 on effective measures against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction concluded today in the village of Bulan Sogottu, Issyk-Kul region...
OSCE opens public information centres in Kyrgyzstan to raise awareness on uranium legacy remediation works
Publishing date: 14 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
BISHKEK, 14 September 2016 – The Office of the Co-ordinator of OSCE Economic and Environmental Activities (OCEEA), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and they Aarhus Centre in Osh today opened the first Public Environmental Information Centres (PEIC) in the towns of Mailuu-Suu and Shekaftar of Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan as well as in Min-Kush, Naryn region, in the northern part of the country...
Dialogue, trust and security in Central Asia in focus at OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network
Publishing date: 10 September 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 10 September 2016 – The second two-day seminar of the OSCE-supported Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) began today in Kara-Oi village, Issyk-Kul region, for around 40 university students, new members of the CAYN and alumni from Afghanistan, Central Asia and Mongolia...