News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE organizes children’s camp to build confidence across borders
Publishing date: 30 July 2014
A summer environmental camp "Borderline Commonwealth: Issyk-Kul 2014" organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek in co-operation with the State Border Service was opened on 25 July 2014 on the lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE trains Kyrgyz law enforcement agencies on victim and witness protection
Publishing date: 17 July 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry and the Lithuanian Criminal Police Office conducted on 15 and 16 July 2014 a training seminar for law enforcement bodies on effective measures in protecting victims and witnesses of organized and serious crimes...
OSCE trains 25 Kyrgyz neighborhood inspectors on gender-sensitive policing
Publishing date: 17 July 2014
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 17 July 2014 – The OSCE Police Matters Programme in co-operation with the Interior Ministry today launched a two-day training course in Issyk-Kul on gender-sensitive approaches to combatting domestic violence for 25 newly-hired neighborhood inspectors from the Chui, Naryn, Talas and Issyk-Kul regions of Kyrgyzstan...
Kyrgyzstan-based NGO Spravedlivost named winner of 2014 Max van der Stoel Award
Publishing date: 10 July 2014
THE HAGUE, 10 July 2014 – Spravedlivost, a non-governmental organization based in Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, has been named as the 2014 winner of the Max van der Stoel Award, for its outstanding work in improving the position of national minorities in the OSCE area...
OSCE and International Civil Aviation Organization assess travel document security in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 9 July 2014
BISHKEK, 9 July 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the OSCE Secretariat (Transnational Threats Department) and the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in co-operation with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) facilitated at the request of the Kyrgyz Government the deployment of an assessment mission focussing on security of travel documents and of their issuance process...
Kyrgyzstan removed from FATF non-co-operative countries list, with OSCE assistance
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
Kyrgyzstan has been removed from the ‘grey list’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and will no longer be subject to the FATF’s monitoring process under its ongoing global process of compliance with requirements on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). This was announced at the third FATF Plenary meeting held from 25 to 27 June 2014 in Paris. The OSCE Centre in Bishkek contributed to this through providing technical assistance to Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE trains officials from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on conflict prevention
Publishing date: 3 July 2014
DUSHANBE, 3 July 2014 – Today the OSCE Office in Tajikistan jointly with the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and in close co-operation with the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) completed a four-day training course on conflict prevention...