This Affects You Too Campaign responds to the Prime Minister
Civil society organizations campaigning against illegal surveillance would like to respond to the allegations voiced by the Prime Minister on 20 November 2014. Mr. Prime Minister, ...
This Affects You: Government should take an urgent political decision to address the issue of direct access to mobile telecom data
Civil society organizations involved in the "This Affects You Too: They Are Still Listening" campaign are alarmed by the attitude that Georgian Parliament has taken towards addressing the issue of direct access to secret wiretapping. Parl ...
It’s Time for Local Governance – ISFED Conducts Roundtable Meetings
On 5, 6, 7 and 10 November, International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy has conducted roundtable meetings within the campaign “It’s Time for Local Self-Governance” in Bolnisi, Senaki, Kutaisi and Rustavi with the representati ...
CSOs: The latest developments bring up many questions that need to be answered
We are closely following the latest political developments in our country. The investigation process initiated by the Prosecutor’s Office against the Ministry of Defense officials and the charges against them were followed by a statement of th ...
Roundtable Discussions in Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe
On October 29-30, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) held roundtable discussions in Borjomi and Akhaltsikhe. In Borjomi participants included members of Sakrebulo and Gamgeoba employees, ...
ISFED hosted information meeting of NGOs in Kutaisi
On October 31, office of the International Society for Elections and Democracy (ISFED) in Kutaisi hosted a monthly information meeting of local and regional NGOs. At the meeting NGOs reported about their activities over the past month. ...
Political decision on direct access to the telecommunications data needs to be made urgently
On October 31, the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili announced his decision to veto the amendments to the Law of Georgia on Electronic Communications adopted by the Parliament the day before. President Margvelashvili sent his s ...
Rules of Regulation for Compensating Sakrebulo Members - Inconsistent Practice in Municipalities
During the July 2014 local self-government elections the population of Georgia elected 2083 members of 71 municipalities. The interest of both political parties and independent candidates was high in the local self-government elections. Accordi ...