Meeting with Lawyers Working in Kakheti
On November 14, 2019, Nika Kvaratskhelia, Head of the Department of Prevention and Monitoring of the Public Defender's Office, and Khatia Kheladze, representative of the Department, met with lawyers w ...
Deputy Public Defender’s Report at International Conference on Population and Development
On November 12-14, 2019, Deputy Public Defender Ekaterine Skhiladze, together with the Georgian delegation, attended the International Conference on Population and Development, the main goal of which ...
Visit to Eshtia Village of Ninotsminda Municipality
On 14 November 2019, representatives of the Public Defender's Samtskhe-Javakheti Office, Salome Kuljanishvili and Andranik Baghdasarian, met with students of public school N2 of the village of Eshtia, ...
Public Defender Invites UN Special Rapporteur on Environment and Human Rights to Georgia
Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has invited UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment David Boyd to Georgia. In the letter of invitation, the Public Defender asks the Special Rapporteur ...
Public Defender Responds to Illegal Detention of Georgian Citizen, Doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili by Occupation Regime
On 13 November 2019, the Public Defender of Georgia was informed about the illegal detention of Georgian citizen Vazha Gaprindashvili by the occupation regime. The de facto Security Committee launched ...
Speech Delivered by Deputy Public Defender at the Opening of Equality Week
"Proportional electoral system serves to achieve equality in the electoral process", - said Deputy Public Defender Giorgi Burjanadze at the opening of the Equality Week and expressed hope that the iss ...
Annual ENNHRI Conference
On 14 November 2019, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria participated in the conference of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutes (ENNHRI) in Brussels, Belgium.
The Public Defender briefed ...
Discussion on Enforcement of Constitutional Court's Ruling on Drug Use
On 13 November 2019, the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) held a discussion on "Ways to Enforce the Constitutional Court's Ruling of 2 August 2019 on Drug Use". The discussion was at ...
Events of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the Association for the Prevention of Torture
On 4-5 November 2019, Giorgi Burjanadze, Deputy Public Defender of Georgia, and Akaki Kukhaleishvili, Deputy Head of the Department of National Preventive Mechanism, attended events organized by the E ...
Parliament Should Support Transition to Proportional Electoral System
The Public Defender is considering the transition to a proportional electoral system in the human rights context and expresses support for it, since it ensures the equality of the weight of votes, les ...
Informational Meetings in Shuakhevi Municipality
On November 6-8, 2019, representatives of the Public Defender, Madona Basiladze and Giorgi Charkviani, held informational meetings in Shuakhevi municipality.
The rural population, public school studen ...
Public Defender Demands the Rule of Selection of Supreme Court Judicial Candidates to be Declared Unconstitutional
On 1 November 2019, the Public Defender filed a constitutional lawsuit with the Constitutional Court of Georgia and requested that the rule of selection of Supreme Court judicial candidates[1] by the ...
