Shortly after the European Parliament adopted a non-binding resolution rejecting the results of Georgia’s 26 October parliamentary elections, alleging “significant irregularities”, the Georgian govern...
On September 17, the Georgian Parliament passed a controversial “Family Values” bill, which directly targets the rights and freedoms of the LGBTI+ community in the country. Approved by 84 ...
The controversial law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” has been adopted by the Georgian parliament, despite weeks of massive protests against it. This is deeply concerning – the law undermines d...
The ruling Georgian Dream party has announced that they again want to try and pass a controversial law that aims to limit foreign influence. A similar law was proposed in 2023 but was dropped after ma...
Across the world, women human rights defenders continue to call for justice, peace, and gender equality – despite facing immense challenges. Still, or maybe because of that, they continue to figh...
On 23 November, Civil Rights Defenders and 18 human rights organisations participated to discuss the use of international litigation mechanisms related to the protection of human rights. The aim of th...
Civil Rights Defenders call on Georgian authorities to closely follow up on court decisions made towards human rights defenders to prevent punishment of human rights defenders and to ensure the peacef...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns attack on Pride Fest in Tbilisi and expresses deep concern about developments in Georgia during Pride Week. Yesterday, 8 July, Tbilisi Pride was forced to cancel its pl...
Civil Rights Defenders condemn the detention of Georgian civil society members Eduard Marikashvili, Chairman of Georgian Democracy Initiative; Saba Brachveli, an employee of Open Society Fou...
Despite protests from Georgian independent media and civil society, the Georgian parliament has registered a so-called “Foreign Agent” bill. The legislation is threatening the work of civil society or...
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