Tbilisi. "Partnership for Human Rights" has organized a press conference. At the event the organization's representative has spoken about the gaps of state agency's monitoring over the children homes of the Patriarchate: "The monitoring process has failed to ensure effective response to the facts of violence against children. The Labor, Health and Social Protection Monitoring Group has not studied the cases of improper treatment of children efficiently."Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. The Georgian Democratic Initiative has released a statement. "The organization would like to express its utmost concern over the information disseminated by the General Director of TV company "Rustavi 2" at the special briefing. According to the statement, a secret source has provided to the TV company's management the audio and video recordings of the General Director of "Rustavi 2" Nika Gvaramia and the Head of the News Service Nino Shubladze, which, according to them, were stored in the Ministry of Interior. ... We call on the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia to carry out an impartial, complete and timely investigation," says the statement. For the full text. Source: gdi.ge

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the National Environmental Agency. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Tbilisi. As media.ge reports, CSO representatives demand the launch of investigation into release of video recordings made in the offices of General Director of TV company "Rustavi 2" Nika Gvaramia and his Deputy Nino Shubladze.Nika Gvaramia has requested a meeting with CSO representatives on May 6. The channel's General Director has shown them secretly recorded video materials provided by one of the Ministry of Interior employees, which depicted his and his Deputy's meetings. For the full text. Source:www.media.ge

Tbilisi. The National Center of Democratic Development has released a statement. "Today it was once again proven that they are still listening to us and the Prime Minister has lied when he had denied this fact. It is further alarming that we hear this from Nika Gvaramia. We are concerned over the fact that they are listening to media, which is a means for public development. Accordingly, media as a free speech and television as business are under pressure... This fact must be investigated urgently and it is crucial to identify concrete offenders, in order to avoid in the future former ministers simply apologizing and calling on us not to commit offences anymore," the statement states. For the full text. Source: ncdd.ge

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the Olympic Reserve Training National Center. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Tbilisi. The Public Defender released a statement. "The Public Defender of Georgia positively assesses adoption of the anti-discrimination legislation by the Parliament of Georgia which is essential for signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union and the visa liberation process. ...Despite a positive assessment, the Public Defender of Georgia has three essential observations regarding the draft law which has a crucial importance for effective implementation of the important law and at this point has not been considered by the Government and the Parliament. Ignoring of these observations may raise doubts about the effective mechanisms to combat discrimination and in fact, could not be conducive to the Public Defender’s effective work in this direction", says the statement. For the full text Source:www.ombudsman.ge

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the Treasury Service. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Samtskhe-Javakheti. The Georgian Evaluation Association has delivered a training in Akhaltsikhe for the ethnic minorities in increasing the accountability and transparency of local authorities, advocacy and monitoring.Trainings are delivered in four cities of Georgia - Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki, Gardabani and Bolnisi - as part of the project "Empowering Marginalized and Ethnic Minority Citizens for Participation in Local Government Decision-Making and Monitoring Activities".Training topics were selected in line with the study results and they aim to raise public awareness, acknowledge their decisive role in the elections and involve them in the self-government activities.

Tbilisi. Center for Post Soviet Studies holds a photo and video competition within the framework of the project The Unity is in Variety. The aim is the advocacy of issues based on ethnic and religious grounds. The Competition  Source:the organization's page in the social network

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the Border Police of Georgia. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Kakheti. CSO representatives have met with the Public Defender. Meeting participants have discussed various problems prevailing in the region. According to the Kakheti Regional Coordinator of the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy Nana Devidze, the meeting has focused on the pre-election environment in the region and the pre-election violations reported in the region.

SamtskheJavakheti. The educational-professional centre "Professional” retrained guides for developing resort and touristic potential. Within the framework of the project a touristic centre was opened in Tsaghveri

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the Medical Mediation Service. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Tbilisi. The Centre for Human Rights Studies and Monitoring with the help of EU implements a five-month-long project "Support for Female Politicians on Local Non-Governmental Level”. Within the framework of the project two trainings will be held for 50 female candidates. For the full text Source: emc.org.ge

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released information obtained  from  the National Center for Teacher Professional Development. For the full text Source:opendata.ge

Kakheti. In Telavi, in front of the municipality hall, a peaceful manifestation was held. They were protesting against the upsurge of violence in the city.  

Tbilisi.On May 5th in Public Service Hall an inter-committee session for free and fare elections.  The session was attended by politicians and NGO representatives. For the full text Source: Centre for the Development of Elections Environment.

Guria. In Guria in the Youth Centre a final meeting of the project of rehabilitation of the probationally detained.There were 100 probationally detained people taking part in the project.

Tbilisi. The US National-Democratic Institute (NDI) has released the results of a public opinion poll on May 5. They reflect public attitude towards the internal as well as foreign policy issues. For the full text. Source: civil.ge

Tbilisi. Transparency International – Georgia has released another news podcast, topics of which are the following: the Parliament adopts Anti-Discrimination Law, the Prime Minister criticizes CSOs, the Parliament debates amendments to the Law of Georgia "on Broadcasting". Podcast of parliamentary news. Source: transparency.ge

Tbilisi. The Civil Society Institute has published an almanac "Civil Society – Advocacy Journalism, Essays", which unites works from various times on the civil society and democracy. The collection includes the works of Georgian and foreign authors. Almanac (geo,)