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BISHKEK, 20 April 2015 – A two-day roundtable to discuss draft laws on the Criminal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Civil Procedure Code, Penal-Executive Code, Code on Offences, as well as legislative acts on increasing the responsibility of judges, and legislative acts on bailiffs and others is being held on 20-21 April 2015 in Bishkek...

SARAJEVO, 16 April 2015- OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier concluded yesterday a three-day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he met with high-level state officials, Srebenica municipal and religious leaders, and senior representatives of the international community...

The second of two OSCE-supported expert meetings on the harmonization of some legislative acts in line with provisions of the new Criminal Executive Code of Kazakhstan took place on 10 April 2015 in Almaty.

The OSCE Programme Office in Astana and the Legislative and Judicial Reform Committee of the Mazhilis (lower chamber of the Parliament) with support of Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry and Embassy of Belgium in Kazakhstan co-organized a study visit to Belgium from 1 to 4 April 2015...

The OSCE Office in Yerevan supported a workshop on 28-29 March 2015 in Tsaghkadzor to discuss the role and main functions of Armenia’s newly-established investigative committee and foster co-operation with media representatives...

BISHKEK, 26 March 2015 – A two-day conference on population registration, data protection and the right to privacy, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, with support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the NGO Legal Clinic “Adilet”, opens today in Bishkek...

BISHKEK, 12 March 2015 – The OSCE Centre in Bishkek held today the third and final roundtable on the improvement of the Kyrgyz Republic’s normative framework on the management of small arms and light weapons (SALW) and conventional ammunition (CA)...