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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
Freedom of expression and judicial regulation of defamation in focus of OSCE-supported online seminar in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 22 October 2020
The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan in co-operation with the Supreme Court, the NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) organized an online seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation on 22 October 2020. Fifty-eight judges of the Supreme Court and the city courts of Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Shymkent and regions (oblasts) throughout the country participated in the seminar...
OSCE organizes regional workshop on intelligence-led policing for law enforcement agencies in Central Asian States
Publishing date: 16 October 2020
The Strategic Police Matters Unit of the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (SPMU), in co-operation with local field operations, organized a regional training workshop on intelligence-led policing (ILP) on 15 and 16 October 2020 for senior representatives of Kazakh, Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek law enforcement agencies...
OSCE supports roundtable discussion on environmental challenges in Kazakhstan’s Kostanay region
Publishing date: 15 October 2020
The first in a series of three OSCE-supported regional roundtable discussions on the country’s environmental challenges concluded on 15 October 2020 in Kostanay, Kazakhstan. The two-day event brought together some 25 representatives from the local authorities, the business community and environmental NGOs. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan, in partnership with the Association of Environmental Organizations, organized the event...
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 organizes online training seminar for journalists on data analytics
Publishing date: 5 October 2020
An OSCE-supported online training-seminar concluded on 3 October 2020. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan organized the three-day event to build capacity of Kazakh-speaking journalists on data management...
OSCE organizes online seminar for judges on freedom of expression and judicial regulation of defamation cases in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 24 September 2020
An OSCE-supported seminar on the protection of freedom of expression and the judicial regulation of defamation took place on 24 September 2020 in Nur-Sultan. The OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan co-organized the event with the Supreme Court, NGO Legal Media Centre, Internews Kazakhstan and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)...
