News and press releases

UST-KAMENOGORSK, Kazakhstan, 1 June 2015 – An OSCE-supported training seminar on countering transnational organized crime and trafficking in drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors began today in Ust-Kamenogorsk, eastern Kazakhstan...

KARAGANDA, 25 May 2015 – An OSCE-supported report on the activities of Kazakhstan’s National Human Rights Commissioner (Ombudsman) in 2014 was presented today at the Interior Ministry Academy in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

The second of two OSCE-supported expert meetings on the harmonization of some legislative acts in line with provisions of the new Criminal Executive Code of Kazakhstan took place on 10 April 2015 in Almaty.

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Legislative and Judicial Reform Committee of the Mazhilis (lower chamber of the Parliament) with support of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry and Embassy of Belgium in Kazakhstan co-organized a study visit to Belgium from 1 to 4 April 2015...

AK-BULAK, Kazakhstan, 12 March 2015 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the application of new Criminal Procedure Code of Kazakhstan and major areas of criminal justice modernization began today in Ak-Bulak near Almaty, Kazakhstan...

Some 50 defence lawyers participated in a seminar on rules of procedural agreements and plea bargaining in criminal cases 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 28 February 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan...

ASTANA, 27 February 2015 – An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on developing national legislation on access to information, countering corruption and public oversight took place today in Astana. The event was initiated by the Legal Council of National Democratic Party Nur Otan and co-organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Prosecutor General’s Office with the support of the Legal Policy Research Centre, Internews-Kazakhstan and Soros Foundation- Kazakhstan...