With GYLA’s help, the ordinance, illegally made by the Adjara Supreme Council were invalidated by the court
On October 8, 2014, the Constitutional Court of Georgia has announced its decision in relation to the lawsuits, filed by GYLA in 2011 and 2012. The constitutional court has upheld GYLA’s requests under the lawsuit and declared unconstitutionality of the incapability model, prescribed under the Civil Code.
In recent days the public has witnessed dangerous confrontation evolve between representatives of NGOs "Free Zone" and "Free Generation". We would like to express our position in respect of several circumstances:
Once again, we would like to react to reports of political persecution of employees of Tbilisi City Hall. Individuals who allege persecution have informed us that they have been subject to systematic pressure since August 2014, in an attempt to force them into resigning for personal reasons. They have also reported that these illegal activities are perpetrated with the involvement of head of the department, his deputy and as well as unidentified individuals (presumably police officers).
Beneficiary was found not guilty
Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association condemns violence against women, which evolved into the disturbing scale and forms in the past months. Violence against women is a crime, which cannot have any cultural, religious or other justification. Today media has aired information on one more case of violence of the ex-husband against the woman, which resulted in the victim’s death.
Within the frames of the project, each case of murders against women will be examined; it will be analyzed whether the actions of the relevant state bodies was effective, timely and adequate for the protection of the violence victims (in cases when the victims have addressed those state bodies).
Non-governmental organizations express deep concern about the recent cases of the violation of the rights of Adjarian Muslims and about the repressive and ineffective governmental policy. We call on the government to cease the religious oppression of the Muslim community that has recently become a regular occurrence.
We would like to respond to the ongoing discussion and uncertainty regarding the next National Security Council meeting.
We would like to respond to the interview given by the Deputy State Minister of Georgia on Diaspora Issues to the Kviris Palitra newspaper on October 25. The interview contains apparent hate speech towards the head of NGO Identoba, Irakli Vacharadze, and a call for physical reprisals against him.
