On May 30, 2015, on the conference, initiated by the president, 8 NGOs and 14 political party representatives have elaborated the document on the electoral system reform. The mentioned document includes the joint vision, which can be briefly summarized as the change of the majoritarian electoral system with the proportional electoral system.
2015-05-30 16:18 See moreDear Members of the Parliament, Representatives of the civil society and political parties address you with this joint appeal:
2015-05-30 16:18 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers’ Association has presented the opinions about the document of the 2015-2016 programmatic priorities of the public broadcaster. The letter underlines those basic issues that must be prioritized in the process of spreading the information by the public broadcaster.
2015-05-29 18:18 See moreThe Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary would like to comment on the Government of Georgia authored bill drafted as part of the Ministry of Interior reform, which provides for separation of the State Security Service from the Ministry of Interior and the resulting changes.
2015-05-28 18:00 See moreTbilisi, 28 May 2015 – The 1 October 2012 parliamentary elections established a new ruling parliamentary majority and brought the Georgian Dream Coalition in the executive power. As part of its pre-election promises, the new government pledged to undertake major reforms and changes in almost all aspects of governance, including: depolitization of the governance system, removing undue pressure from the private sector, improving protection of human rights and the welfare of citizens.
2015-05-28 14:55 See moreIn the national library GYLA Foundation for the Support of Legal Education held closing ceremony of the project “Promotion of Civil and Legal Education” on May 25, 2015. The project aims public awareness raising about civil and legal education, development of professional skills among civil education teachers and provision of civil education through intensive training course. In the framework of the project Street Law guidebook, published in 2014 by the Foundation for the Support of Legal Education in cooperation with GIZ, was introduced in public school curriculum.
2015-05-25 17:30 See moreOn May 25, 2015 GYLA lodged a constitutional case in the court and challenged constitutionality of Article 2 of the Government order about “Pending Measures for Transition to the Universal Insurance Program”. Under this norm, individuals who had used private insurance by July 1, 2013 period are deprived of the chance to benefit from the medical service envisaged by the Universal State Insurance Program. These individuals are eligible only to the minimal insurance service package.
2015-05-25 17:00 See moreFirst of all it is notable that the Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) welcomes the readiness of the government to de-concentrate the excessive power, existing at the hands of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and to create institutionally and functionally separate state security service.
2015-05-18 15:00 See moreWith GYLA’s assistance a citizen of Iran received residence permit GYLA’s Tbilisi office represented in the court interests of a citizen from Iran. On August 9, 2013 he was enrolled in the state conservatory and received temporary residence permit for a year. After expiration of the period, he applied to the State Services’ Development Agency and requested resident permit for continuation of education.
2015-05-07 11:41 See moreOn 6 May 2015 GYLA held the conference, “Russia’s responsibility during August War and at present: cases of GYLA at the European Court”, in the Georgian National Library. The cases, in which GYLA invoked the Responsibility of Russian Federation before the European Court, were discussed at the conference.
2015-05-06 15:00 See more