On August 29, the Government selected two new candidates for the European Court of Human Rights to substitute for the candidates rejected by the Council of Europe. The Coalition believes that the composition and rules that govern the work of the Governmental Commission are still unjust, as is the outcome of its work, which does not correspond to the requirements of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Resolution on Nomination of Candidates and Selection of Judges.
GYLA, in collaboration with the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), on September 5, 2017, filed a femicide case with the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The case relates to the inaction of the State to avoid the femicide (murder of a woman on gender grounds) and inadequate investigation of the crime that constitutes a systemic problem of discrimination against women in Georgia.
By the decision of April 14, 2016,1 the Plenum of the Constitutional Court of Georgia granted the complaint of the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy2, allowing non-partisan persons to run in gamgebeli/mayoral elections on the basis of nomination by initiative groups of citizens.
The Parliament of Georgia is considering the amendments to be made to the Law of Georgia on "Agricultural Land Ownership” in an accelerated way. The legislative package during the period of moratorium [i] – prior to the enactment of the new constitution- allows the alienation of agricultural land parcels to foreigners.
