On June 12-14, 2011, Ekaterine Skhiladze, Deputy Public Defender of Georgia, and Rusudan Kokhodze, Deputy Head of the Department of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, attended the 11th session o ...

The Day of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is observed in Georgia on June 14. The Public Defender annually speaks about the rights of these persons, which has remained a challenge in Georgia f ...

On June 7-8, Mariam Bochorishvili and Nino Valikov, employees of the Public Defender's Office, participated in the annual spring workshop of the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC) i ...

Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, together with members of the Special Preventive Group, monitored Tbilisi’s public school No 202 (boarding school for blind children). The school provides boarding ...

On May 10, 2018, Deputy Public Defender Ekaterine Skhiladze, representatives of the Public Defender's Office and members of the Consultative Council for Monitoring the Implementation of the UN Convent ...

On April 20, 2018, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria presented a monitoring report on the state employment programs intended for persons with disabilities. At the opening of the event, the Public Defender ...

On April 13, 2018, the Consultative Council for Monitoring the Implementation, Protection and Promotion of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities held its 14th meeting. The meeting ...

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day. The world supports the rights of people with autism and speaks out against discrimination. The 2018 World Autism Awareness Day will focus on the importance of em ...

World Down Syndrome Day is marked on March 21, which is aimed at raising public awareness of people with Down syndrome. The theme of the World Down Syndrome Day 2018 - "What I Bring to the Commun ...

On March 20, 2018, RosaKornfeld-Matte, UN Independent Experton the enjoyment of all humanrightsbyolder persons,visited the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia. Ekaterine Skhiladze, Dep ...

On January 30, 2018, the Consultative Council for Monitoring the Implementation, Protection and Promotion of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities held its 13th meeting. The meetin ...

On January 3, 2018, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria addressed the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia with a proposal concerning the education rights of children with disabilities who are left ...