News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE trains police officers in Kyrgyzstan to address domestic violence
Publishing date: 22 November 2013
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 22 November 2013 – Developing effective responses to domestic violence was the focus of an OSCE-supported series of training courses for Kyrgyz police officers that concluded today in the towns of Cholpon-Ata and Karakol in Issyk-Kul province in northern Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE helps Kyrgyzstan dispose of excess stockpiles of small arms and light weapons
Publishing date: 14 November 2013
BISHKEK, 14 November 2013- Kyrgyz government officials, representatives of diplomatic corps, and journalists attended an observation exercise held today at a military polygon Ala-Too near Bishkek. The exercise was part of an OSCE-supported project strengthening Kyrgyzstan’ capabilities in managing and controlling small arms, light weapons, and stockpiles of conventional ammunition (CA)...
OSCE supports visit of senior Afghan police officers to Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 11 November 2013
A delegation of senior Afghan police officers is participating in an OSCE-supported peer-to-peer visit to Kyrgyzstan from 11 to 15 November 2013...
OSCE helps set up police neighbourhood office in southern Kyrgyzstan to tackle car thefts
Publishing date: 1 November 2013
A neighborhood inspector’s office opened with the OSCE support in Kok-Art micro district of Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Jalal-Abad on 1 November 2013. The project was proposed and supported by the local community to counteract a recent surge in the number of car thefts in the area with some 30,000 residents...
OSCE supports opening of training centre for Kyrgyz and Afghan customs officers
Publishing date: 1 November 2013
LENINSKOE, Kyrgyzstan, 1 November 2013- An opening ceremony of a training centre for customs officers from Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan took place today in Leninskoe village near Bishkek. In 2013 and 2014, some 360 officers will be trained in the new centre established with the OSCE support...
OSCE supports exhibition on Kyrgyzstan’s prisons
Publishing date: 18 October 2013
An OSCE-supported exhibition by French photographer Eric Gourlan opened on 18 October 2013 at the Kyrgyzstan’s Theatre of Fine Arts. The exhibition features 40 pictures Gourlan took in two men’s colonies, a colony for women and a colony for adolescents. The images reflect the everyday routine of both the detainees and staff members of the colonies.The project is being implemented with support from the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan’s State Penitentiary Service, non-governmental organizations Egl and Freedom House...
OSCE supports a concert by children’s musical theatre in Bishkek
Publishing date: 16 October 2013
A production of "The Green World” by the popular children’s musical theatre Taberik took place on 16 October 2013 in the Kyrgyzstan’s National Philharmonic with support from the OSCE Centre in Bishkek.