News and press releases

ASTANA, 17 November 2015 – A seminar organized by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana and National Economy Ministry on best practices in local self-governance took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...

KOKSHETAU, Kazakhstan, 16 November 2015 – Some 20 regional and city administration officials, civil society activists and trade union representatives will learn about the provisions and application in Kazakhstan of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) during a two-day OSCE-supported training seminar that began today in Kokshetau...

ASTANA, 13 November 2015 – An OSCE-supported international conference on the Green Bridge Partnership Programme (GBPP) as platform for promoting best practices and innovations in a green economy took place today in Astana, Kazakhstan...

ASTANA, 10 November 2015 – The role and participation of civil society in preventing and countering violent extremism was the topic of an OSCE-supported roundtable discussion, which began today in Astana.

An OSCE-supported training seminar on the topic of energy efficiency for school teachers took place on 9 November 2015 in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. The event was the last in a series of three sessions that trained over 300 secondary school teachers from Astana, Almaty and the Eastern Kazakhstan region...

Four students from the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) learnt about the work of OSCE and its institutions during a two-day study visit to Vienna, which concluded on 6 November 2015...

ASTANA, 5 November 2015- An OSCE-supported training seminar for election observers and members of the Central Election Commission (CEC) took place today in Astana...