The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and the Office of the State Minister on Diaspora Issues signed the Memorandum of Cooperation in migration field on September 11, 2013 at 12:00.
2013-09-12 02:14 See moreWith the assistance from GYLA’s office individuals dismissed from “Children’s Youth National Center” of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs of Georgia were restored to work A lawyer from GYLA’s office in Tbilisi was representing N.A.’s, A.S.’s and M.Z.’s interests. They worked in LEPL “Children’s Youth National Center”. On December 31, 2012, upon decision of the Center, they were dismissed from the office unreasonably. The employer founded his decision on Article 37(1d) of the Labor Court which has been interpreted for years in violation of employees’ interests.
2013-09-11 04:18 See moreOn September 6, 2013 the general director of the Public Broadcaster was dismissed from the post on the basis of announced mistrust from the side of Board of Trustees of the public broadcaster. As the documents released on the web-page of the public broadcaster illustrate, two members of the Board Nino Danelia and Natalia Dvali were not at the session and were represented by Levan Gakheladze, ex-member of the Board and Mamuka Pachuashvili member of the Board, on the basis of the official power of attorney.
2013-09-09 12:23 See moreOn June 13, 2013 three constitutional drafts were initiated in the Parliament of Georgia and GYLA submitted its opinion to public from the very start. The organization was actively involved in public discussion of the drafts: GYLA’s representatives attended meetings held in different cities and submitted to public GYLA’s opinions. Today, GYLA submitted to the Parliament the detailed written opinion on Constitutional draft. GYLA evaluates positively the following issues:
2013-09-05 04:29 See moreTomorrow, on September 5, on behalf of Salome Zourabishvili GYLA will apply to the administrative board of Tbilisi City Court for invalidation of the resolution #64/2013 of the chairman of the Central Election Commission refusing to register Salome Zourabishvili as a candidate for the 2013 presidential elections.
2013-09-04 03:51 See moreAccording to the information released on the web-page of the TV Company “Tabula”, on August 24, 2013 while recording police raids in Tbilisi, Patrol Police stopped Giorgi Sikharulidze, the journalist from “Tabula”. As Tabula reports, Police abused the journalist verbally, searched him and destroyed the filmed video.
2013-08-29 06:37 See moreOn August 26, rights of Muslim population were grossly violated by dismantling mosque minaret in the village Chela of Adigeni Municipality by employees of the customs’ departments of the revenue service of the Ministry of Finance and abusing local residents physically by law-enforcement representatives. None of the recent facts (Nigvziani, Tsintskaro, Samtatskaro) of threats towards the Muslim community, their persecution, creation of obstacles to performance of their religious rituals or hooliganism were followed by the relevant punishment of law offenders. Inadequate, discriminatory and inefficient actions of the state resulted in systemic nature of harassment of Muslims based on religious grounds.
2013-08-29 06:28 See moreThe document has been prepared on the basis of the Organic Law of Georgia “Election Code of Georgia,” “Law of Georgia on Broadcasting”, Resolution # 9 of August 15, 2012 of the Georgian National Communications’ Commission and the Resolution #42 of August 19, 2013 of the Central Election Commission. In case of introducing amendments to the relevant legislation, answers to the frequently asked questions will be updated. GYLA’s Media Legal Defense Center is eager to provide legal aid on election issues to media representatives.
2013-08-28 08:07 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers' Association became a finalist of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Competition held by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The price is awarded to a person or organization for distinguished service in human rights’ field. Human rights organizations operating in Europe and other countries are eligible to participate in the competition.
2013-08-27 01:11 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) makes a statement on wide scale pardoning initiative of the President of Georgia (extinguishing of previous convictions, additional punishments and probation sentences).
2013-08-26 08:34 See more