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Kyrgyz National Strategy for Sustainable Development is focus of OSCE-supported discussion in Bishkek
Publishing date: 23 December 2014
The Heads of Talas and Issyk-Kul provinces, district administrations and Kyrgyz Ministry of Economy officials gathered in Bishkek on 17 December 2014 for a final discussion on sustainable development program for the regions...
OSCE, Kyrgyz Defence Ministry sign five agreements on management and control of small arms and light weapons in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 22 December 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyz Defence Ministry signed five agreements on practical implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding on small arms and light weapons (SALW) and stockpiles of conventional ammunition (SCA) programme that was signed on 2 August 2013 and ratified in May 2014...
OSCE, Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau, Kyrgyz Interior Ministry join forces to combat organized crime
Publishing date: 18 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Good governance, Policing
BISHKEK, 18 December 2014- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek today completed a three-day training course for 40 police investigators on how to effectively conduct EU Serious Organized Crime Threat Assessments (SOCTA), investigations based on intelligence-led policing, and combatting drug trafficking and violent extremism...
OSCE-supported report examines freedom of peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 15 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BISHKEK, 15 December 2014 – A report assessing the implementation of Kyrgyzstan’s 2012 law on peaceful assembly was presented at an OSCE-organized roundtable discussion in Bishkek today...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports establishment of witness protection unit in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 11 December 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the establishment of a new Witness Protection Unit under the Criminal Investigation Department of Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry on 10 December 2014, by providing technical equipment that will ensure the information security of protected witnesses during the investigation of criminal cases...
OSCE brings together civil society and state actors to review situation of human rights defenders in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights
More than 60 representatives from civil society and state institutions in Kyrgyzstan came together to discuss the situation of human rights defenders in the country at a meeting held in Bishkek on 9 and 10 December 2014.
OSCE’s Community Security Initiative supports waste clean up campaign in Osh, 1.5 tons of plastic collected
Publishing date: 10 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Environmental activities
OSH, Kyrgyzstan, 10 December 2014- Three schools involved in the “My Clean Town” environmental campaign will be awarded today by the Osh City Mayor, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Agroprom Holding recycling company as part of an campaign to raise the community’s involvement in an environmental clean-up initiative supported by educators and students...