News and press releases

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Legislative and Judicial Reform Committee of the Mazhilis (lower chamber of the Parliament) with support of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry and Embassy of Belgium in Kazakhstan co-organized a study visit to Belgium from 1 to 4 April 2015...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan supported a workshop on 28-29 March 2015 in Tsaghkadzor to discuss the role and main functions of Armenia’s newly-established investigative committee and foster co-operation with media representatives...

BISHKEK, 26 March 2015 – A two-day conference on population registration, data protection and the right to privacy, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, with support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the NGO Legal Clinic “Adilet”, opens today in Bishkek...

BISHKEK, 12 March 2015 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held today the third and final roundtable on the improvement of the Kyrgyz Republic’s normative framework on the management of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA)...

AK-BULAK, Kazakhstan, 12 March 2015 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the application of new Criminal Procedure Code of Kazakhstan and major areas of criminal justice modernization began today in Ak-Bulak near Almaty, Kazakhstan...

BELGRADE/VIENNA, 2 March 2015 – OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier today condemned the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov on Friday 27 February, and called for a thorough investigation into his death.

Some 50 defence lawyers participated in a seminar on rules of procedural agreements and plea bargaining in criminal cases in accordance with new Criminal Procedure Code co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana in co-operation with the Almaty Bar Association on 28 February 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...