Georgia. Are you an enterprise carrying social or environmental values? Then you have the opportunity to take part in the first exhibition of social and green enterprises in Georgia. 

Exposition is being organized within the EU4Youth: Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development (SEED) for Green Growth in Borderline Communities”, which is being implemented by CENN in partnership with Green Lane (Armenia) and Kakheti Regional Development Foundation (KRDF) (Georgia). 

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Registration deadline: April 25, 2021 

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Source: The page in the social network

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Tbilisi. From March 1, 2021, ”Rights Georgia” implements a new project in support of human rights defenders and activists – “Support human rights defenders and activists at risk”.

The goal of the project is to provide legal assistance to human rights defenders/activists, tend to increase guarantees for their safety and protection, enhance their professional skills and raise awareness of legal issues that are relevant to their activities.

Along with various activities, the project envisages the creation/audit of a network of human rights defenders and activists across the country. This should facilitate the formation of a swift and effective communication system of support and mutual assistance in the future.

“Rights Georgia” requests organizations to urge activists, human rights defenders, or community leaders, affiliated with them, to fill out the registration form 

Besides, provide information to all activists with whom they have communication.

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Source: The website of the organization

Tbilisi. Social Justice Center (former EMC) has published a research document: Employment policy for ethnic minorities. The research has published within the framework of a project - “Strengthening ethnic minority integration and rights protection via research, education, advocacy, and confidence-building activities”. 

“Current reality brings double damage to the employment of ethnic minorities because poor access to education, public services, including economic support programs, weak language competencies and radical omission of minority languages in the language policy - a discriminatory environment make it difficult for them to engage and participate in social and economic life.

The purpose of this document is to review relevant experiences of ethnic minority employment policies, which may become an interesting resource for the state in the process of considering special needs of ethnic minorities in the employment policy and pursuing additional supportive policies”.

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Source: socialjustice.org.ge

Tbilisi. The Coalition reacts to the amendments to the Organic Law of Georgia on Common Courts submitted by Anri Okhanashvili, Chairman of the Legal Issues Committee. The organization believes that the proposed fragmented changes are completely detached from the current reality.

“The Coalition believes that an agreement on key issues of judicial reform should be reached within the framework of the current mediation process. In particular, the government and the opposition should first agree on a consensus-oriented rule for the composition of the High Council of Justice and the Supreme Court, which will contribute to the elimination of the rule of the Clan and weaken the government's improper influences over the system”.

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Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. The Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) shares a survey of community organizations operating in Georgia in 2019-2020 years. “The purpose of the survey was to study groups operating in villages or small settlements of Georgia, their working environment and obstacles. Besides coming up with the results of the survey and accompanying recommendations, there was also a justified list of active community organizations. The list will be made public in the spring of 2021.

See the survey in Georgian 

See the survey in English  

The survey was conducted by the Community Development Center (CDC) in 2019-2020 years with the support of the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) and the Open Society Georgia Foundation, while it was translated into English within the framework of the “Civil Society Sustainability Initiative” project.

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Source: The website of the organization in a social network