The competition for selecting members for the Legal Aid Service Council was held in the Public Defender’s Office on January 25, 2013. Public Defender’s Office shall nominate three members for the Legal Aid Service Council. One should be the staff member of the Public Defender’s Office, while other two should be selected on the basis of the open competition in view of applicants’ experience in human rights field and/or five years experience of academic/scientific activity.
2014-01-27 05:40 See moreWe, the non-governmental organizations and the representatives of the civil society of Georgia are deeply concerned with the violence against the free and strong-willed people of Ukraine who are defending fundamental rights and freedoms and European aspirations of Ukraine.
2014-01-26 03:39 See moreAs it is known in January 2014, the Parliamentary Inter-fractional Group started to work on the reform of election legislation, which should serve as the bases for conduct of the 2014 elections.
2014-01-24 01:16 See moreThe Parliament of Georgia has been reviewing the draft “Local Self- governance Code” with the second reading. In view of this, we would like to voice our position once again on the mechanism of announcing mistrust to the Mayors/Gamgebelis envisaged by the submitted draft. The draft proposes important novelty, such as direct election of Gamgebelis(Mayors) that has been supported by our organizations long ago. We, however regret that the draft envisages the norm that diminishes importance of the elected Mayors and Gamgebelis.
2014-01-23 03:54 See moreThe civil society of Georgia is deeply concerned about the tragic events going on in Ukraine. We express our sincere condolences over those killed during the latest events. For the past two months, the Ukrainian government has been neglecting people’s legitimate and peaceful demands. Moreover, the government adopted the draconian laws restricting civil rights of citizens thus provoking protesters and contributing to escalating mass tension.
2014-01-22 09:15 See moreAs it is known, the inter-fractional group was set up on election issues by the December 26, 2013 order of the Chairman of the Parliament. It aims preparation of amendments on self-governance elections to the Organic Law of Georgia “Election Code” and other laws and their submission to the Parliament. The inter-fractional group already held its first working meeting and NGOs, parliamentary and non-parliamentary political parties had opportunity to participate.
2014-01-20 03:04 See moreOn December 30, 2013, the General Prosecutor of Georgia, Mr. Otar Partskhaladze resigned. The developments around the former General Prosecutor, including questions regarding his criminal record and legal education, clearly showed significance of selection process and underlined responsibility of relevant authorities involved in this process, in particular the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister.
2014-01-17 04:01 See moreThe undersigned organizations express concern over the inadequate response of the Georgian authorities to Ivane Merabishvili’s allegations made on December 16, 2013 NGOs have demanded number of times from the authorities to launch an investigation on the submitted information. Even though the Georgian Legislation explicitly obliges the Prosecutor’s Office and the relevant unit of the Ministry of Corrections to start a full-scale investigation into such facts, no comprehensive investigation has taken place so far. Regrettably, the actions of the authorities have been limited to an internal inquiry conducted by the Ministry of Corrections.
2014-01-17 02:33 See moreOn January 15, 2014 the Georgian National Communications’ Commission (GNCC) invalidated the license granted to Energy Group LLC by the August 26, 2013 decision and issued by the November 1, 2013 decision. The reason of invalidating the licence was Kakha Baindurashvili’s position who simultaneously is the director of the Energy Group LLC and owner of its 20% shares and the President of the Georgian Chamber of Commerce, which according to the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting is incompatible with the broadcasting license. It should be noted that the Public Defender of Georgia, Legal Committee of the Georgian Parliament, the Journalists’ International Federation and the Media Advocacy Coalition are on the same position.
2014-01-16 02:32 See moreRecently budgeting process in Tbilisi has become the focus of public attention. Even though we are now in a new budgeting year, this year’s budget has not yet been approved which raises a number of questions. We would like to provide public with answers to these questions from applicable legislation:
2014-01-15 08:12 See more