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Roundtable held on OSCE/ODIHR reviews of draft laws on crime prevention and combating domestic violence in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 October 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 27 October 2009- An OSCE roundtable meeting to discuss draft laws on crime prevention and combating domestic violence, as well as legal opinions prepared by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, started in Astana today...
OSCE Centre in Astana to co-organize series of community policing seminars
Publishing date: 24 August 2009
OSKEMEN, Kazakhstan, 24 August 2009- The OSCE Centre in Astana, together with the International Kazakhstan Bureau of Human Rights and Rule of Law, launched the first of five training seminars today...
OSCE supports Central Asia workshop on seizing and recovering organized crime proceeds
Publishing date: 14 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ALMATY, 14 July 2009- A workshop to discuss how Central Asian law enforcement agencies can co-operate more effectively to seize and recover the illegal proceeds of organized crime, corruption and money laundering started in Almaty today...
OSCE organizes meeting to promote Central Asian law enforcement co-operation in combating organized crime
Publishing date: 1 July 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 1 July 2009- An OSCE-supported meeting in Astana brought seven Deputy Interior Ministers and more than 50 high-level officials from the criminal justice sector together today...
OSCE Centre co-organizes roundtable meeting on prevention of torture in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 27 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
ALMATY, 27 June 2009- Participants in an OSCE-supported meeting held today in Almaty discussed effective mechanisms to prevent torture in Kazakhstan and measures to strengthen the role of the civil society in monitoring places of detention...
OSCE Centre supports anti-corruption capacity-building training
Publishing date: 26 June 2009
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Economic activities, Policing, Rule of law
ASTANA, 26 June 2009- Some 40 experts from the regional offices of the Kazakhstani financial police and the General Prosecutor's Office completed an OSCE Centre-organized course on best practices to prevent, investigate and prosecute...
OSCE promotes democratic policing in Central Asia
Publishing date: 13 November 2008
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Policing
ALMATY, 13 November 2008- Assisting OSCE participating States in Central Asia to put the Organization's guidelines on democratic policing into practice is the focus of a roundtable discussion that opened in Almaty today...