News and press releases

From 26 to 28 June 2014, the OSCE Center in Bishkek in co-operation with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conducted a series of events in Batken, Osh and Jalal-Abad in the south of Kyrgyzstan to enhance public confidence in Kyrgyz police...

ULAANBAATAR, 27 June 2014 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek funded a study visit to the Mongolian capital on 24 to 27 June 2014 of fifteen representatives from Kyrgyzstan’s Parliament, the Central Election Commission, the State Registration Service, the President’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and other key state agencies to familiarize participants with the population registration system and use of biometric data in Mongolia...

BISHKEK, 26 June 2014 – On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek together with the National Torture Prevention Centre, Freedom House and the non-governmental organization Golos Svobody held a roundtable meeting on torture and ill-treatment in detention facilities and the army in Kyrgyzstan...

Representatives from the President Office, parliament, the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies, the government and civil society gathered in Bishkek on 17 June 2014 to discuss rule of law and judicial reforms in Kyrgyzstan...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported a training course from 9-13 June 2014 on torture prevention and international and national standards regarding the rights and freedoms of military personnel...

Poverty, drugs, alcohol and peer pressure are the factors behind a sharp rise in the number of youths committing crimes in Kyrgyzstan, concludes a survey co-produced by the Police Matters Programme of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and presented on 13 June 2014...

A two-week training course for anti-terrorism instructors from Kyrgyzstan concluded on 6 June 2014 in Bishkek...