Newsroom
News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Kazakhstan's young journalists take part in OSCE-sponsored master classes
Publishing date: 16 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Media freedom and development
ATYRAU, 16 February 2004- The OSCE Centre in Almaty's first master class training for young journalists kicked off today in Kazakhstan's Caspian port city of Atyrau. The programme is aimed at giving students and young professionals the...
OSCE Centre in Almaty to hold workshop on draft environmental information law
Publishing date: 11 February 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 11 February 2004- A workshop that will enable environmental non-governmental organizations to discuss the establishment of legal guarantees for access to information on environmental matters will be held in Almaty on 13 February...
OSCE launches environmental education project in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 January 2004
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
ALMATY, 23 January 2004- An environmental education project is being launched on Monday in Kazakhstan by the OSCE Centre in Almaty in co-operation with the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC). The project will run until...
OSCE Almaty roundtable to focus on problem of juvenile delinquency
Publishing date: 12 December 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ALMATY, 12 December 2003- Discussion of the legal status of under-aged offenders who are not criminally liable due to their youth will bring together Kazakhstan's human rights experts at a roundtable next week. In criminological terminology...
Transparency of oil revenues holds the key to industrial success, Almaty seminar hears
Publishing date: 24 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization
ALMATY, 24 November 2003- Participants at a roundtable in Kazakhstan, co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Almaty, discussed the importance of transparency of contracts in the taxation of oil operations, the country's biggest revenue service. The...
Nobel economist talks to Kazakhstani journalists about oil revenue transparency
Publishing date: 17 November 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
ALMATY, 17 November 2003- Opening a three-day OSCE co-financed workshop for Kazakhstani journalists on reporting on oil wealth and its impact on development, the Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz, said that managing oil wealth was a great challenge...
OSCE Centre co-organizes festival on environmental journalism in Dushanbe
Publishing date: 21 October 2003
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Centre in Ashgabat, OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Media freedom and development
DUSHANBE, 21 October 2003- A week-long event to promote and encourage environmental journalism in Central Asia and to increase public access to environmental information has started today in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe. The Third Central Asian...