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News and press releases from the OSCE's global activities.
OSCE supports mentoring workshop for mobile doctors in Kyrgyzstan on best practices in health care and human rights protection
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 24 August 2016 – A two-day workshop organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek for 16 young and recently-recruited mobile doctors from Batken, Osh, Jalalabad and Talas provinces on health care and human rights protection in detention facilities started today in Sary-Oi, Issyk-Kul region...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports Women’s Leadership School in Batken
Publishing date: 24 August 2016
Some 30 female candidates who will be standing for election to the local councils in the Batken and Osh provinces in southern Kyrgyzstan in November 2016 as well as civil society and media representatives are participating in the OSCE-supported Women’s Leadership School, which started on 23 August in Batken. The training course is organized in co-operation with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the NGO Women’s Support Centre...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in Balykchy
Publishing date: 23 August 2016
ISSYK-KUL, Kyrgyzstan, 23 August 2016 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the Mayor’s Office of Balykchy and the International Republican Institute signed today a memorandum of understanding to support a pilot project on improving municipal services delivery in the town of Balykchy, northern Kyrgyzstan, through a so-called “single window model”...
OSCE Centre supports training of Kyrgyz officials and civil society on police reform
Publishing date: 19 August 2016
VIENNA, 19 August 2016 – An OSCE-supported training course for ten representatives of the Kyrgyz Parliament, Interior Ministry and civil society on the development of police under parliamentary democracy concluded today in Vienna...
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports workshop on enhancing the skills of press officers of Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces
Publishing date: 10 August 2016
BISHKEK, 10 August 2016 – A three-day OSCE-supported workshop for 15 press officers from Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces on communications and on co-operating during times of crisis concluded today in Bishkek...
To mark World Day against Trafficking in Persons OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports public awareness raising campaign
Publishing date: 30 July 2016
BISHKEK, 30 July 2016 – To mark today’s World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported a public awareness-raising campaign and held a public discussion with academic representatives in Bishkek and Osh.
OSCE Centre in Bishkek supports summer school on topical issues of police reform
Publishing date: 29 July 2016
BISHKEK, 29 July 2016 – Some 30 police officers of different ranks from seven regions of Kyrgyzstan are taking part in a summer school training programme, which closes tomorrow in Issyk-Kul, on the topical issues of police reform, conducted by the Kyrgyz Association of Women Police and the Interior Ministry, with the support of the OSCE Centre in Bishkek...