News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports seminars to promote transparency in Uzbekistan's democratic reforms
Publishing date: 4 May 2011
A series of seminars that started in Tashkent on 3 May with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan aims to strengthen the skills of staff at Uzbekistan’s state administration agencies and civil society organizations’ information services. Around 60 representatives of ministries and state agencies, as well as major non-governmental institutions are expected to take part in the training events...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan holds course on assistance for trafficking victims
Publishing date: 26 April 2011
A three-day workshop with Uzbekistan’s state agencies and civil society to better protect and assist the victims and survivors of human trafficking opened in Tashkent on 26 April 2011...
Women’s rights, police capacity building focus of OSCE workshop in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 16 March 2011
TASHKENT, 16 March 2011 – Building the capacity of national police personnel to protect women’s rights is the focus of a three-day OSCE-supported workshop that opened today in Tashkent...
OSCE provides equipment to improve national passport system in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 10 February 2011
TASHKENT, 10 February 2011 – In a ceremony held in Tashkent today the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan handed over to the representatives of Uzbekistan’s Interior and Foreign Ministries equipment to support the government's efforts to improve the national passport system and introduce biometric identity and travel documents...
OSCE-supported meeting seeks ways to further democratize judicial-legal system in Uzbekistan
Publishing date: 1 February 2011
Identifying ways to further democratize the judicial-legal system and strengthen judicial independence in Uzbekistan were the focus of a meeting held in Tashkent on 31 January 2010 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the National Human Rights Centre of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
OSCE-supported meeting in Central Asia focuses on countering incitement to terrorism
Publishing date: 8 December 2010
TASHKENT, 9 December 2010- Counter-terrorism experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are discussing how to best counter incitement to terrorism and violent extremism at an OSCE-supported regional seminar that began in Tashkent today...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan supports meeting to improve transport development
Publishing date: 1 November 2010
TASHKENT, 1 November 2010- An OSCE-supported meeting that started today in Tashkent aims to improve the co-ordination of transport development across the Eurasian region...