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OSCE organizes study visit of Kyrgyz officials to Latvia to learn about best practices in anti-corruption
Publishing date: 11 April 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities, Good governance
A four-day visit of eight Kyrgyz officials to Riga, Latvia, aimed at learning international best practices on combatting corruption, ended on 11 April 2014...
OSCE trains staff of Kyrgyzstan’s National Centre for Torture Prevention
Publishing date: 8 April 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported a training course in the capital from 5 to 8 April 2014 on human rights monitoring for staff of Kyrgyzstan’s National Centre for Torture Prevention (NTPC), NGO representatives, the National Ombudsman Office and the Co-ordination Council on Human Rights...
Afghan customs officers complete OSCE-supported training in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 3 April 2014
The OSCE supported an advanced law enforcement training course for 15 Afghan customs officers from 22 March to 3 April 2014, which took place at the Kyrgyz Customs Centre in Leninskoe village, near Bishkek...
OSCE donates equipment to Kyrgyzstan multilingual TV and radio station to promote pluralist, public media
Publishing date: 1 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
OSH, 1 April 2014 – As part of OSCE efforts to support the development of pluralistic and professional media, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek today donated computer equipment to Yntymak TV and Radio in Osh, which is the only media outlet in the southern provinces of the country broadcasting programmes in Kyrgyz, Russian and Uzbek languages...
OSCE-supported project launched to bolster private economy, reduce corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 19 March 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Economic activities
BISHKEK, 19 March 2014 – A memorandum of understanding to launch a major regulatory system reform project was signed between the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Economy today...
OSCE supports study tour for Kyrgyzstan customs staff trainers
Publishing date: 17 March 2014
A week-long study tour to Azerbaijan for trainers at Kyrgyzstan’s Customs Training Centre concluded on 15 March 2014 in Baku. The visit was supported by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...
OSCE holds professional training course for national security officers in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 24 February 2014
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
An OSCE-supported professional training course for ten officers of the Bishkek and Osh Remand Prisons under the State Committee on National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) concluded on 22 February 2014 in Bishkek...