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 ...

According to media reports, organizers of the European Olympic Youth Festival Tbilisi 2015 did not take into account the needs of people with disabilities who wished to attend the opening ceremony on ...

Representatives of the Public Defender's Office of Georgia paid a training visit to the Ombudsman's Office of Serbia on July 21-24. The visit was attended by Deputy Public Defender Natia Katsitadze, H ...

The Gender Equality Department of the Public Defender's Office monitored service centers (shelters) of human trafficking victims on 10-11 June 2015, under the authority granted by law. Shelters were c ...

On December 15, 2014 the Public Defender of Georgia proposed the Parliament to introduce changes into the Administrative Procedure Code of Georgia, concerning the possibility of submitting ‘Amic ...

On 20 July representatives of the Public Defender attended court sessions of one of the organizers of the Stop Russia event and 10 individuals detained at the rally held against the Panorama Tbilisi p ...

The Public Defender of Georgia has addressed the Parliament with a proposal concerning the bill on abolition of police eviction mechanism. We believe that the regulations proposed by the bill, if adop ...

On July 17, 2015, the Public Defender addressed the LTD “Artpalace” with a recommendation to develop the internal documents (regulations / rules / principles), which will introduce the pri ...