International Day of Persons with Disabilities is marked on December 3 on the initiative of the United Nations. The purpose of this day is to promote the protection of the rights and well-being of per ...

Equality Week was held in Georgia on November 15-24, 2021, with the aim of informing the public of the importance of equality and the available legal mechanisms to combat discrimination. The Public De ...

Public Defender Nino Lomjaria is paying an official visit to the United States of America from November 29 to December 3, where she will hold meetings at the U.S. Department of State, Congress and Sen ...

On November 23, 2021, the group of experts/specialists set up by the Public Defender paid its third visit to patient (accused/convicted) Mikheil Saakashvili. The patient has been treated at the Giorgi ...

Every year, the Public Defender of Georgia joins the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, which has been marked since 1991 and aims to raise public awareness of the elimination ...

Another process of electing Supreme Court judges has started in the Parliament of Georgia. The Legal Affairs Committee set up relevant working groups and intends to hear all 4 candidates nominated by ...

On November 23, 2021, Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued a special statement urging Georgian politicians to respect the Public Defender’s institution a ...

On November 16-19, 2021, Tamar Gvaramadze and Ekaterine Skhiladze, Deputies of the Public Defender of Georgia, paid a working visit to Brussels, the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium. During the visit ...

We are pleased to announce that on November 15, 2021, the Public Defender of Georgia, for the first time in the history of the Public Defender’s Office, has started fulfilling the duties of a me ...

On November 22, 2021, the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia addressed the Public Defender and requested the involveme ...

One of the clinical aggravations predicted by the group of specialists/experts set up by the Public Defender of Georgia relating to Mikheil Saakashvili occurred yesterday. After observing the aggravat ...

In March 2021, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA), in cooperation with the Public Defender's Office and with the support of USAID/PROLoG, launched a pilot project aimed at providing legal ...