News and press releases

The third and last in a series of training sessions on human rights for Kyrgyzstan’s prosecutors concluded on 23 June 2012 in Bishkek...

YEREVAN, 22 June 2012 – A two-day training workshop for some 25 lawyers and human rights defenders from non-governmental organizations on third party intervention (amicus curiae) in constitutional and international human rights procedures started in Yerevan today...

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo concluded a one-week training course on witness protection for 20 Kosovo police officers on 15 June 2012 in Vushtrri/Vučitrn. The training focused on legal provisions and appropriate procedures and protection programmes that can be offered to witnesses...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held a training course for heads of units of correctional institutions under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service from 21 May to 12 June 2012...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 7 June 2011 – Reform efforts in the field of criminal justice are the focus of an OSCE-supported two-day round-table meeting that began in Almaty today...

The effective resolution of electoral disputes in Kyrgyzstan was the focus of a roundtable discussion held in Bishkek by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and other partners, on 29 May 2012...

ASHGABAT, 25 May 2012 – Five senior officials from Turkmenistan’s law-enforcement bodies participated in an OSCE-organized working visit to Denmark and Norway on prison management that concluded in Oslo today...