News and press releases

A one-week modular training course on collective action, the role of regulatory impact assessments and anti-corruption proofing of draft legislation for more than 40 representatives of public sector, business community and civil society concluded on 8 December 2017 in Astana.

The OSCE-supported Third Defenсe Lawyers Forum dedicated to the important issues of reforming the legal profession took place in Almaty on 8 December 2017.

The office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) organized the first “Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia School on Multilingual and Multicultural Education for Integration and Sustainable Development”, in co-operation with the ORLEU National Centre for Professional

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.

An OSCE-supported training seminar on gender mainstreaming the work of local governments concluded in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan, on 5 December 2017.

An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the legislation and law enforcement practices regulating police’s work in preventing and combating domestic violence concluded on 30 November 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

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.