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Kazakhstan’s officials learn about best practices in election administration during OSCE-supported study visit to Finland
Publishing date: 16 October 2015
The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and Finland’s Foreign Ministry organized a study tour to Helsinki for four members of Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission (CEC) from 12 to 16 October 2015, with the aim of acquainting them with the institutional and legal framework of Finland’s election system and its election administration...
OSCE supports workshop for long-term election observers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Elections
ASTANA, 21 November 2014 – A workshop for long-term election observers, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana and the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan and with the support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), took place in Astana today...
OSCE Centre supports seminar on enhancing role of political parties in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 16 April 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Elections
SEMEY, Kazakhstan, 16 April 2014 – Promoting the role of political parties in parliamentary activities in Kazakhstan is the main topic of a two-day seminar supported by the OSCE Centre in Astana. The event, which brought together 25 representatives of national political parties and civil society, began today in Semey, eastern region of Kazakhstan...
OSCE helps train Kazakhstan’s international election observers
Publishing date: 29 November 2012
On 29 November 2012, representatives of the OSCE Centre in Astana and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights spoke at a training seminar on international election observers’ rights and responsibilities organized by Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission...
OSCE roundtable meeting focuses on electoral reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 9 September 2011
ASTANA, 9 September 2011 – Electoral reform and OSCE commitments for democratic elections were the topics of a roundtable meeting organized today in Astana by the OSCE Centre in Astana, together with Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry and the Central Election Commission...
OSCE roundtable meeting in Almaty focuses on electoral reform in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 19 May 2006
ALMATY, 19 May 2006- Experts from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, politicians and representatives of civil society gathered today in Almaty for a roundtable discussion aimed at bringing electoral processes in Kazakhstan...
OSCE Centre supports election lessons for first-time voters in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 November 2005
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 15 November 2005- Over 7,000 secondary school students from 10 regions of Kazakhstan who can cast their vote for the first time in the forthcoming presidential election on 4 December are today beginning a special course on elections, supported...