News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports Forum of Defense Lawyers
Publishing date: 10 December 2021
An OSCE-supported online Forum of Defense Lawyers concluded on 19 November 2021. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Republican Collegium of Advocates and the Legal Policy Research Centre.
OSCE organizes training seminar for lawyers and legal advisers
Publishing date: 22 October 2021
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized an online two-day training seminar on enhancing capacities of professional societies for lawyers on 21 and 22 October 2021.
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.