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Settlement colonies in Kyrgyzstan to open income-generation units with OSCE support
Publishing date: 14 June 2013
ANANYEVO, Kyrgyzstan, 14 June 2013 – A farm in a settlement colony in Kyrgyzstan was officially launched today in the Colony 44 in the village of Ananyevo in Issyk-Kul region of the country...
OSCE helps chief accountants of Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary institutions develop professional skills
Publishing date: 24 May 2013
A five-day training seminar for chief accountants of Kyrgyzstan’s detention facilities, organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Penitentiary Service, ended in Bishkek on 24 May 2013...
OSCE, EU and UNODC support income-generation activities in Kyrgyzstan’s penitentiary system
Publishing date: 16 May 2013
BISHKEK, 16 May 2013 – How to develop income-generation activities for prisoners was the topic of a training seminar on 14 to 16 May 2013 in Bishkek. The event was held in the training centre of the state penitentiary service (GSIN) and was co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek, the European Union, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...
OSCE Centre supports monitoring of implementation of new law on freedom of peaceful assembly in Kyrgyzstan
Publishing date: 21 December 2012
BISHKEK, 21 December 2012 – The implementation of the new law on peaceful assemblies in Kyrgyzstan was the focus of an OSCE-supported discussion that took place in Bishkek today...
Government, civil society discuss rule of law, judicial reform at OSCE-supported event in Bishkek
Publishing date: 11 December 2012
BISHKEK, 11 December 2012- Representatives of the Presidential Administration, the Parliament, the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor’s Office, the government and civil society gathered today at an OSCE event in Bishkek to discuss the rule of law and judicial reforms in Kyrgyzstan...
OSCE helps find ways to counter extremism and radicalization in prisons
Publishing date: 19 November 2012
Ways to counter violent extremism and radicalization that might lead to terrorism in Kygyzstan’s penitentiary establishments were discussed during a two-day seminar which started on 19 November 2012 in Bishkek. The event was organized jointly by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and the State Penitentiary Service...
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...