News and press releases
News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE Secretary General meets with Central Asian Youth Network alumni
Publishing date: 31 August 2017
Five participants from the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) met with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger in Vienna on 30 August 2017 and discussed security issues in Central Asia, the OSCE’s work and its comprehensive approach to security...
OSCE concludes training seminars on torture prevention in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 29 August 2017
The last in a series of three OSCE-supported training seminars on monitoring of children's institutions for participants of National Preventive Mechanism for Preventing Torture and Ill-treatment (NPM) concluded on 29 August 2017 in Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports training for journalists on open data and data processing in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 August 2017
A two-day OSCE-supported training seminar on data journalism for some 15 journalists across the country concluded on 25 August in Almaty, Kazakhstan...
OSCE supports regional trade facilitation and border protection workshop in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 25 August 2017
An OSCE-supported regional workshop on trade facilitation and border protection concluded on 25 August 2017 in Astana. Some 60 officials of Kazakhstan’s Finance Ministry and trade representatives from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Uzbekistan reviewed the challenges and
OSCE concludes roundtable discussion series on organic farming in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 8 August 2017
The last in a series of three OSCE-supported regional roundtable discussions on promoting green technologies with a focus on organic agriculture concluded on 8 August 2017 in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan...
OSCE concludes training series for Kazakhstan’s border service officers on risk profiling
Publishing date: 4 August 2017
The last in a series of six OSCE-supported five-day training courses on risk profiling at border checkpoints to assist eighteen officers of the Border Service of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee in countering transnational threats concluded in Kostanai, Kazakhstan on 4 August 2017...
OSCE supports anti-trafficking training seminars for law enforcement officers and social workers in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 4 August 2017
Some 100 law-enforcement officers, social workers and representatives of the local Akimat (regional administration) from the Atyrau, Aktobe, Mangystau and Western Kazakhstan regions as well as the city of Aktau took part in the last in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars on anti-trafficking practices and procedures in Aktau, Kazakhstan, which concluded on 4 August 2017....