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OSCE/ODIHR Forum in Almaty promotes further reforms to criminal justice systems in Central Asia

Publishing date: 31 October 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Rule of law
More than 100 policymakers, academics, legal professionals and civil society representatives from across Central Asia highlighted recent reform initiatives, current challenges and the way forward in the region’s criminal justice sector at a two-and-a-half day forum that ended in Almaty on 31 October 2012...

OSCE Centre in Bishkek and Kyrgyzstan’s State Registration Service promote international standards in the production of travel documents

Publishing date: 23 October 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Border management
BISHKEK, 23 October 2012 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek presented information brochures on requirements for passport photographs to Kyrgyzstan’s State Registration Service today...

OSCE supports civil society and international participation to promote human rights and anti-corruption in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons

Publishing date: 18 October 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Rule of law
Two half-day workshops for the directors of penal colonies under Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary system took place on 18 October 2012 at the Training Centre for Prison Staff in Bishkek. The events were co-organized by the state penitentiary service, the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, Freedom House and USAID...

OSCE Academy in Bishkek hosts seminar on security in Central Asia

Publishing date: 14 September 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Education
The fifth annual Central Asian security seminar took place at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek on 13 and 14 September 2012...

OSCE supports human rights monitoring in pre-trial detention facilities and penitentiaries in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 12 September 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
A report on monitoring human rights in remand prisons and penitentiaries under Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service GSIN was presented at a roundtable discussion on 12 September 2012 in Bishkek...

Young journalists at OSCE Academy in Bishkek discuss media issues with German Minister

Publishing date: 28 August 2012
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Media freedom and development
Students of the Central Asian School of Contemporary Journalism of the OSCE Academy and the Deutsche Welle Akademie, a summer school for young journalists, met Federal Minister for Economic Co-operation and Development of Germany Dirk Niebel in Bishkek on 26 August 2012...

OSCE fosters professional development of penitentiary officers in Kyrgyzstan

Publishing date: 17 August 2012
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek
What we do: Rule of law
BISHKEK, 17 August 2012 – A one-month training course by the OSCE Centre for officers representing all of Kyrgyzstan’s correctional colonies and remand prisons concluded in Bishkek today...