On April 27, 2016, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Chief Prosecutor’s Office to start an investigation into alleged ill-treatment of citizen G.A. by police officers. According to th ...

The Public Defender of Georgia has addressed the Minister of Corrections with regard to the legality of temporary transfer of juvenile inmates from juvenile rehabilitation facility N11 to penitentiary ...

On April 26, 2016, the Public Defender’s Tolerance Center organized a working meeting - "Current situation of Roma people in Georgia" at the National Library. "It is important to consider Europe ...

On April 22, 2016, the Public Defender submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Kutaisi Court of Appeal with regard to the alleged case of gender-based discrimination in pre-contractual labour relation ...

The National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) shared the Public Defender’s recommendation on restoration of the violated right of citizen N.M. N.M., on the basis of an ownership certificate issu ...

On April 22, 2016, the Consultative Council for Monitoring the Implementation, Promotion and Protection of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities held another working meeting, which ...

From April 18 to April 22, 2016, the Human Rights Academy of the Public Defender held TOT training for 22 psychologists of the Social Service Agency of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affair ...

Realization of the labor rights of persons with disabilities is a significant challenge among the existing problems of protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. According to the Ministry ...

Recently, purposeful distortion of the assessments and problems depicted in the chapter on religious freedom of the Public Defender's annual report has acquired a systematic nature. In particular, acc ...

On April 20, 2016, Deputy Public Defender Natia Katsitadze attended the ninth meeting of the Georgia-EU dialogue on human rights issues in Brussels, Belgium. An open discussion was held at the meeting ...

The Public Defender learned that B.T., arrested on 14 March, 2016, died in the Telavi temporary detention isolator on 15 March. Examination of the case by the Public Defender showed that B.T. felt bad ...

On April 15 and 18, 2015, the Public Defender addressed the Chief Prosecutor to launch investigations into cases of illegal detentions. Citizen G.Ch. was detained under the administrative rule by empl ...