The Bill on Quotas should Ensure Meaningful Increase of Women’s Representation
In a few days the Parliament of Georgia will consider a legislative initiative of 37,455 constituents mandating political parties and blocs to alternate female and male candidates on party lists for parliamentary and local self-government elections. ...
ISFED Issues Final Report of 2017 Local Self-Government Elections
On March 19, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presented the final report of monitoring of the 2017 local self-government elections. The report covers the ISFED’s key findings and trends of the pre-election, Election ...
Final Report of Monitoring the 2017 Local self-government elections
On March 19, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) presented the final report of monitoring of the 2017 local self-government elections. The report covers the ISFED’s key findings and trends of the pre-election, Election ...
Georgian Government's policy towards Russia must become realistic
The Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia would like to respond to the recent discussion among the public concerning Georgian-Russian relations as well as to the statements made by Georgia's highest-ranking officials and their reaction to yet another a ...
Parliament should Support Gender Quotas
Civil society organizations urge the Parliament of Georgia to support during the plenary session legislative initiative backed by 37,455 signatures to ensure equal political representation of women and men. On 12 June 2017, a legislative init ...
NGOs respond to the developments in the Municipal Council of Borjomi
The recent developments and political confrontation in the Municipal Council of Borjomi clearly go beyond the legal limits for the exercise of local self-government and causes a considerable damage to the essence of self-government as the right and o ...
The Coalition is Starting “Make Courts Trustworthy” Campaign
Recent developments in the judiciary once again exposed the extent of the systemic problems in the judiciary. It is clear that the reforms implemented in the court system in recent years failed to achieve their main objective of having justice delive ...