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OSCE co-organizes seminar for defence lawyers on criminal justice procedures in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 2 February 2015
Some 40 defence lawyers participated in a seminar on rules and standards of evidence 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 31 January 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports discussion on national strategy for developing the penitentiary system
Publishing date: 21 January 2015
BISHKEK, 21 January 2015- The OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the Kyrgyz State Penitentiary Service today opened a roundtable discussion to evaluate progress on implementing the National Strategy on the Development of the Penitentiary System “UMUT 2”...
OSCE Centre co-organizes seminar on new criminal justice codes in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 23 December 2014
ASTANA, 23 December 2014- More than 70 officers of the investigative and operational units, departments of internal security of State Revenues Committee of the Finance Ministry from across the country take part in a four-day training seminar, which began today in Astana...
OSCE Presence in Albania concludes seminar series on newly-established administrative justice system
Publishing date: 17 December 2014
The OSCE Presence in Albania concluded a series of seminars in Tirana and Durrës in December 2014 on the newly-established administrative justice system in Albania...
OSCE Centre supports Second Penal Reform Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 12 December 2014 – Current challenges in employing prison inmates and ways to facilitating their reintegration into the community were the main topics of the Second Forum on Penitentiary Reform in Kazakhstan held today in Astana...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports establishment of witness protection unit in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 11 December 2014
The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the establishment of a new Witness Protection Unit under the Criminal Investigation Department of Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry on 10 December 2014, by providing technical equipment that will ensure the information security of protected witnesses during the investigation of criminal cases...
ODIHR releases Trial Monitoring Report on Georgia
Publishing date: 9 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Rule of law
WARSAW, 9 December 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today released its Georgia Trial Monitoring Report, concluding ODIHR’s trial monitoring activities in the country. The trial monitoring project began in February 2013 and focused on 14 criminal cases against senior officials of the previous government in Georgia...