On September 6, 2016, the Public Defender of Georgia submitted amicus curiae brief to the Administrative Cases Panel of Tbilisi City Court concerning alleged discrimination on grounds of age. The appl ...

The Public Defender considers that in the so-called cables case it is important the Constitutional Court to consider the constitutionality of embezzlement – a norm envisaged by the Criminal Code ...

On August 31, 2016, the Public Defender addressed Ltd. New Vision with a recommendation in which he established a fact of direct discrimination on grounds of pregnancy. According to an applicant, her ...

The Public Defender of Georgia responds to the information spread by the media on August 26, 2016, according to which, following the meeting in Keda Municipality Council the women were asked to leave ...

On August 22-26, 2016, the Human Rights Academy of the Public Defender held training for 19 caregivers of children’s homes under the Orthodox Patriarchate and the Muslim confession of Georgia. T ...

On August 30, 2016, the Public Defender met with international and local organizations working on the election issues and presented a project on the monitoring of human rights violations during the el ...

August 30 marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances and it has been celebrated since 2011. The enforced disappearance is often deliberately used as an instrument to subject ...

Based on media reports, the Public Defender, on his own initiative, started to study the case of pushing the 22-year-old young man, D.S., to committing suicide in the village of Dafnari, Samtredia mun ...

On August 22, 2016, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a recommendation, according to which, an applicant with disabilities was subjected to direct discrimi ...

On August 19, 2016, the Public Defender addressed Tbilisi Mayor Davit Narmania with a recommendation and demanded annulment of his order on a special (zonal) agreement, according to which, constructio ...

On August 23 Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili sent a letter of invitation to UN Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers Mónica Pinto. The aim of the invitation is to study the ...

According to the State Security Service, seven citizens of Georgia were arrested on 22 August 2016 on different charges in connection with planning a terror attack. According to media reports, a famil ...