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OSCE supports training course for crisis negotiators in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 20 July 2018
Strengthening the capacity of crisis negotiators from across Kazakhstan was the focus of a five-day training course held from 16 to 20 July 2018 in Koschi, Kazakhstan. The event was organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, the Embassy of Israel in Astana and the Ministry of Public Security of the State of Israel, together with the Law Enforcement Agencies Academy under Kazakhstan’s Prosecutor General’s Office.
OSCE hosts regional seminar for judicial officials on countering terrorist use of the Internet in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 28 June 2018
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
ALMATY, 28 June 2018 – A two-day regional seminar on countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes for Central Asian judges, prosecutors, investigators and lawmakers began today in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports training course in Kazakhstan on disrupting terrorist financing
Publishing date: 15 June 2018
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
A five-day training course aimed at strengthening the capacity of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Service and Prosecutor’s Office officials to disrupt the financing of terrorist networks and to apply sanctions pursuant to relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions concluded on 15 June 2018 in Astana...
OSCE and UNODC train Kazakh trainers on countering terrorist financing
Publishing date: 7 December 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Countering terrorism
Strengthening the capacity of government officials from Kazakhstan to counter terrorist financing was the aim of a three-day train-the-trainers course organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department, the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) Global Programme against Money Laundering, at the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna from 5 to 7 December 2017.
OSCE organizes seminar on community policing to counter violent extremism in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 30 November 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Countering terrorism, Policing
A three-day training seminar on strengthening the collaboration between police and citizens in countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT), supported by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana, concluded in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on 30 November 2017.
Criminal justice responses to terrorism focus of joint OSCE-UNODC seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 5 October 2017
A two-day seminar on strengthening rule of law-compliant criminal justice responses to terrorism, which brought together over 30 practitioners from the judiciary, law enforcement agencies and prison management, concluded on 5 October 2017 in Astana.
OSCE trains Kazakhstan’s border service officers in risk profiling
Publishing date: 30 June 2017
The fifth in a series of OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist sixteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats by using risk profiling at border checkpoints concluded in Aktobe, Kazakhstan on 30 June 2017...