The Public Defender has addressed the Co-Chairmen of the Interim Governmental Commission for the Needs of Villages Located along the Dividing Line with a proposal about the necessity of taking efficie ...

On August 6, 2015, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance with a proposal to amend decree # 97 of May 30, 2011, in order to allow a defendant/convict ...

On 31 July, 2015, a joint statement of the Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI), Media Development Foundation (MDF), Identity, Tolerance and Diversity Institute (TDI) was posted on the website of the N ...

On August 3, 2015, Minister of Corrections and Probation Kakha Kakhishvili paid a visit to the Public Defender of Georgia. The meeting was attended by Deputy Public Defenders Paata Beltadze and Natia ...

The Public Defender of Georgia, in cooperation with Tbilisi State University and by the support of the European Union project, held another public debate on the country’s capabilities to solve t ...

On July 31, 2015, the Constitutional Court of Georgia ruled in favor of the Public Defender's constitutional complaint and held that subparagraph “b” of article 17 of the law on Public Ser ...

On July 17, 2015, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Director of the Patrol Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with regard to the legality of imposition of an administrati ...

On 31 July 2015, a meeting was held between Chief Prosecutor Giorgi Badashvili and Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili by the initiation of the latter. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Public Defe ...

The Public Defender has assessed the fulfillment of recommendations offered in the Parliamentary Report on Situation of Rights and Freedoms in Georgia in 2013, a year after the Parliament adopted a de ...

On 30 July 2015 the Public Defender addressed the Chief Prosecutor with a proposal to launch investigation into an alleged ill-treatment of inmates D.K. and B.K. in the penitentiary establishment N7 o ...

On 29 July 2015 the Public Defender submitted an amicus brief to the Constitutional Court in connection with a constitutional complaint “Lali Lazarashvili v. the Parliament of Georgia". The Pub ...

Gender inequality and violence against women remains a serious challenge in Georgia. Stereotypical attitudes and discriminatory practices are deeply rooted in the society, which often ends up with vio ...