News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports training webinar on best practices in protection of whistleblowers
Publishing date: 29 March 2021
An OSCE-supported online training webinar on the protection of whistleblowers concluded in Nur-Sultan on 26 March 2021. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized the event in partnership with the Anti-corruption Agency of Kazakhstan...
OSCE organizes online training seminar on enhancing communication of judiciary with media in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 7 December 2020
An OSCE-supported training seminar for judges-co-ordinators and press secretaries on capacity-building in communication and enhancing interaction with the media concluded on 5 December 2020 in Nur-Sultan.
Digitalization of justice in focus of OSCE-supported Defence Lawyers Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 November 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in co-operation with the National Bar Association and NGO Legal Policy Research Centre, organized the fifth National Forum of Defence Lawyers on 27 November 2020...
OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organizes online seminar on freedom of expression and judicial regulation of defamation
Publishing date: 14 October 2020
An OSCE-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation took place on 10 October 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organized the event with the Academy of Justice under the Supreme Court (Academy), NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Some 55 Master students of the Academy attended the seminar...
OSCE supports II Central Asian Dialogue on reduction of prison population and development of probation service
Publishing date: 30 October 2019
The II Central Asian Dialogue on reduction of prison population and development of probation is taking place from 28 to 31 October 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The event was co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, the Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia, the Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman Office), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Asia Group, the British Embassy in Kazakhstan, the Prison Committees of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan.
OSCE supports training seminar for defence lawyers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 13 September 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar for representatives of the legal profession on the qualified legal protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms concluded on 14 September 2019 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE continues training seminars on enhancing communication between courts and media in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 August 2019
An OSCE-supported training seminar on enhancing dialogue and co-operation between the courts and media concluded on 2 August 2019 in Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan. Forty judges-co-ordinators, press secretaries, journalists and bloggers from the cities of Kostanay and Nur-Sultan and the Akmola, Karaganda, Kostanay, North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar regions took part in the event...