Prevention of Early Marriage
On 27 May, an advocacy meeting was held by Public Defender’s Office (PDO) of Georgia with the partnership of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on the following topic: „Prevention of E ...
Statement on Murder of Women
Despite numerous awareness raising campaigns, creating legal and institutional guarantees and criminalization of domestic violence, a rate of domestic violence still remains alarmingly high.
The most ...
Gender mainstreaming strategy in the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) published the guidance note on the Public Defender’s Office for the best practice in creating and developing Department of Gen ...
Meeting with participants of International Training
On 22 May 2014, the Deputy Public Defender of Georgia, Mr. Paata Beltadze met with representatives of South Sudan, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia participating in the int ...
Statement on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
May 17 is the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, also known around the world as IDAHO. The date of May 17 was chosen to commemorate the decision to remove homosexuality from the Int ...
Gender Equality and women’s rights
The Public Defender has presented the chapter of his report “Gender Equality and Women’s Rights” for 2013 to the NGOs’ sector, international organizations and governmental bodi ...
Statement on the early marriages
An early marriage among the girls still remains to be an existing practice in Georgia, expressed in the forms of kidnapping with an aim of marriage and agreements between parents. A number of recommen ...
Statement of Public Defender about International Women’s Day
I would like to congratulate the whole Georgia on the occasion of the International Women’s Day.
The Gender equality department of public defender’s office has conducted regional meetings ...
Statement of the Public Defender about the Mother’s Day
I would like to congratulate the whole Georgia on a Mother's Day. March 3 has been celebrated since 1991 in Georgia, but the tradition of the celebration of this remarkable day takes its roots earlier ...
Campaign “Milliard Rebellions for Justice”
On February, 14, the whole world unified within the framework of the project “Milliard Rebellion for Justice’’ to express a protest to the violence against women.
We marked this day ...
For overcoming family violence
On July 22, 2010, the Public Defender and the Center for Women and Children’s Rights at the Public Defender’s Office held a meeting on the topic of family violence. The meeting was held wi ...
A round table on gender equality
On June 7, 2010, the Public Defender and the Center for Children and Women’s Right at the Public Defender’s Office, with the support of the UN Development Program project “Strengthen ...
