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OSCE Centre supports Second Penal Reform Forum in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 12 December 2014
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana
What we do: Policing, Rule of law
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...
OSCE Centre supports discussion on new criminal justice model in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 21 November 2014
An OSCE-supported roundtable discussion on the implementation of the action plan for the transition to a new model of the criminal and administrative justice took place on 21 November 2014 in Almaty...
OSCE Centre supports training event on ethics and prevention of judicial corruption in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 17 November 2014
ASTANA, 17 November 2014- An OSCE-supported training seminar and roundtable discussion on ethics and the prevention of corruption in the judicial system began today in Astana...
OSCE Centre organizes study visit to Netherlands on legislation of probation
Publishing date: 28 October 2014
The OSCE Centre in Astana and the Legislative and Judicial Reform Committee of the Mazhilis (lower chamber of the Parliament) with support of the Penal Reform International Office in Central Asia and Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry co-organized a study visit to Netherlands from 23 to 28 October 2014...
OSCE Centre supports seminar on transition to new model of criminal justice in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 15 October 2014
An effective functioning of the legal system, law enforcement practice and legislative development in light of ongoing criminal justice reform in Kazakhstan were among the topics of a three-day training seminar co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Astana that took place from 13 to 15 October 2014...
OSCE Centre in Astana launches training seminars on National Preventive Mechanism for preventing torture and ill-treatment
Publishing date: 2 September 2014
ASTANA, 2 September 2014 – The second in a series of four OSCE-supported training seminars on practical aspects of implementing the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for preventing torture and ill-treatment in Kazakhstan took place today in Astana...
OSCE Centre launches training series to support local self-government reforms in Kazakhstan
Publishing date: 1 August 2014