On June 14, Day for Protection of Rights of Persons with Disabilities is marked in Georgia. The commemoration of the day is linked to adoption of the Law of Georgia “On social protection of pers ...

On May 5, 2015, the Department for Protection of Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the Public Defender presented vision of the Public Defender on the mechanism of popularization, protection and m ...

On April 3, 2015, the Public Defender presented two special reports “On legal rights of the child in mountainous regions of Georgia” and “Results of the monitoring in pre-school inst ...

On April 2, World Autism Awareness Day is marked across the world. Establishment of this day by the United Nations General Assembly serves the purpose of raising awareness of the public about problems ...

On March 21, the World marks World Down Syndrome Day which aims mainly at raising awareness of all sections of society, including members of families with persons with Down syndrome. In 2015, the awa ...

On February 12-14, 2015, the Public Defender of Georgia with the support of the United Nations Development Programme and the financial support of the Government of Romania conducted training in Kachre ...

On February 12, 2015, through information disseminated in the electronic media, the Public Defender of Georgia became aware that wheelchair users who had been invited to attend the jubilee evening of ...

On December 3, the world marks the International Day of People with Disability to promote support for their rights, equality and dignity. The main objective of this day is to raise awareness and ...

On December 1, 2014, the Public Defender of Georgia held presentation of “Popularization of awareness raising of ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities/results of focus groups” in th ...

On December 10, 2014, the Public Defender of Georgia held a summary-presentation of the project “Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: existing challeng ...

On October 31, the Public Defender held another public debate on the state of legal rights of persons with disabilities. The debate was moderated by head of the programme unit of the UN Development Fu ...

On October 27, 2014, at the sixth meeting of the government coordination council working on issues of persons with disabilities, the Georgian Government named the Public Defender of Georgia as an agen ...