News and press releases

ASTANA, 12 December 2014 – Current challenges in employing prison inmates and ways to facilitating their reintegration into the community were the main topics of the Second Forum on Penitentiary Reform in Kazakhstan held today in Astana...

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek supported the establishment of a new Witness Protection Unit under the Criminal Investigation Department of Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry on 10 December 2014, by providing technical equipment that will ensure the information security of protected witnesses during the investigation of criminal cases...

WARSAW, 9 December 2014 – The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today released its Georgia Trial Monitoring Report, concluding ODIHR’s trial monitoring activities in the country. The trial monitoring project began in February 2013 and focused on 14 criminal cases against senior officials of the previous government in Georgia...

The OSCE Presence in Albania on 4 December 2014 donated a range of academic books to the Albanian Police Academy. The recently-published books on criminology, psychology, criminal law, criminal procedure and other topics of interest for the law enforcement community will form the nucleus of the library of the Academy’s soon-to-be-established police higher education institution...

The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku and Azerbaijan’s Justice Academy organized a two-day train-the-trainers course on 1 and 2 December 2014, focusing on the legal norms of preventing domestic violence...

More than fifty representatives from 30 non-governmental organizations and eight OSCE field operations exchanged experiences in applying trial-monitoring methodologies at the Annual Trial Monitoring Meeting, organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) between 26 and 28 November 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia.

More than 65 policy-makers, academics, justice professionals and civil society representatives from Central Asia and the wider OSCE region came together on 24-25 November 2014 to discuss reform initiatives, current challenges and good practices for criminal justice systems at the Fifth Expert Forum on Criminal Justice for Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.