Tbilisi. On April 10, the Media Development Fund and the Georgian Democratic Initiative have executed the Memorandum of Cooperation with the Council of Religions functioning with the Public Defender as part of the campaign "No To Phobia". The Memorandum provides for cooperation aimed at eliminating hate speech and any discrimination against humans in the society. Source: web page of the Media Development Fund in the social network.

Kvemo Kartli. SIQA has organized a summary forum of the Civil Integration Youth Camp on April 10, attended by the civic club guardians and schoolchildren of 24 schools (including 12 Georgian and 12 Azerbaijani) participating in the camp and representatives of partner schools. With facilitation of trainers and leaders, in the camp the participants have developed 10 projects to resolve problems prevailing in the municipalities, for which grants in the amount of 1300$ were issued to 7 projects as part of the camp activities. As a result, with the schoolchildren's efforts, individual problems of importance to a community were solved in all municipalities of Kvemo Kartli. Source: the organization's web page in the social network.

Tbilisi. The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center has published Tamar Tskhadadze's lecture. The guest spoke about "Why Feminism?" as part of the Center's "Civil Activism Platform". The lecture. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Adjara. ISFED, Transparency International and GYLA have organized a meeting in Batumi on April 10 over amendments made to the Election Code.Meeting participants have discussed positive and negative aspects of these amendments. In addition, they have examined recommendations for the post-election period.Elections.

Where an Open Society Scholarship Can Take You?  Corina Ajder from Moldova and Khatuna Ioselani from Georgia answered questions about Open Society Scholarship. For the full text Source:osgf.ge

Samegrelo. On April 10th the Youth Centre "Ortus” freed walkirng books. The books will be waiting for their readers in the Dadiani park and boulevard.  Source:the organization's page in the social network

Tbilisi. Georgian Young Lawyers' Association released a statement about the Draft Anti-Discrimination Law Initiated in the Parliament. "On April 2, 204, draft law on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination was initiated in the parliament by the Government of Georgia, drafted by the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia. The document is considerably different from the draft elaborated by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia several months ago, with an active involvement of NGOs, representatives of ethnic, religious and other groups. The draft proposed to the parliament no longer envisages setting up of a special institute for elimination of discrimination – inspector for the protection of equality. Instead, provision of equality will be supervised by the Public Defender of Georgia, who in its turn has not been delegated with effective means for combating discrimination by the draft", says the statement. For the full text Source:gyla.ge

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a document - "Summary for Policymakers". The document  Source:the organization's page in the social network

Adjara. The Public Defender has met with representatives of Adjara-based CSOs on April 8 and informed them about the report submitted in the Parliament. He was briefed by the third sector representatives about publicly-known disputes and relatively unknown facts of violation of citizens' rights.CSOs request the Public Defender to react to issues such as the land reform in Adjara, violation of citizens' rights by law-enforcers and risks associated with construction of hydroelectric plants.

Tbilisi. The "Young Barristers” address the Government of Georgia and the Parliament with an initiative to make amendments in the Georgian statute on "Victim recognition of those harmed during a rally raid of April 9th 1989” – the lawyers of the organization announce at the press conference. For the full text Source:the organization's page in the social network

Samegrelo. On April 9th the members of the youth centre "Ortus” visited the memorial of April 9. They commemorated the fallen for the independence of Georgia.The event was held within the "Strengthening of National Integration” project. Source:the organization's page in the social network

Tbilisi. A training was delivered on April 8 in the Training Center of the Central Election Commission for candidate women concerning the registration in the self-government elections and other procedural issues. Members of the leader women's data base (administered by the Gender Equality Network) from various political parties and potential independent candidates have participated in the training. Source: web page of the Gender Equality Network in the social network.

Tbilisi. The Georgian Young Constitutionalists have paid tribute to the victims by the April 9 Memorial and made the live chain. Members of the Association have symbolically brought flowers to the Memorial of 1989 victims exactly at 4:00 a.m., when the crackdown on protesters began in 1989. Source: the organization's web page in the social network.

Samtskhe-Javakheti. On April 8th the members of "Sayers of Democracy School” visited the union of Meskhetian democrats. The aim was to strengthen partnership between the organizations.Source: Web-page of the organization in the social network.

Tbilisi. "AIESEC" has organized the youth business-forum. The event aimed to facilitate contacts between young leaders and various company representatives. Up to 200 pre-selected youngsters of 18-30 years of age have participated in the business-forum, as well as the business sector representatives and successful leaders, who are interested in supporting the development of Georgia's future leaders and public well-being.A three-day forum has hosted discussions over the following issues: unemployment of the youth, entrepreneurship, innovations, stable development of the business, career growth, etc. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. Non-governmental organization "The Young Barristers” filed a statement in the Prosecutor’s office to accelerate investigation of intoxication of soldiers in The Ministry of Defense. "Interest of the organization lies in availability of official information, whether the cases of intoxication of soldiers in the Ministry of Defense during 2013-2014 are being investigated, at what stage is it and what is the reasonable period of time needed for the Prosecutor’s office in order to outline guilt and/or publish the results". For the full text Source:barristers.ge

Kakheti. Children living in the family-type homes will be involved in the farming activities as well. Charity humanitarian center "Abkhazeti" introduces this approach in the small family-type homes of Kakheti, and in particular Baisubani, Kurdghelauri and Vardisubani.Within the framework of a small project of the Polish Embassy, the home in Baisubani was rehabilitated and the infrastructure was organized. Additional facilities were built in the yard. Trees were planted and to develop small farming, the poultry and domestic animals were purchased for the children. The Center plans to plant a vineyard together with the children as well.

Tbilisi. The Human Rights Center has released a statement on April 8. The Center "urges the Prosecutor's Office to interrogate convicted person TeimurazGvaradze about the Lapankuri special operation". At the press conference the organization has informed media about the statement of TeimurazGvaradze, inmate in the 8th Penitentiary Institution of Gldani. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. Georgia’s Reforms Associates (GRASS) held the presentation of research "Alternatives to Durable Housing Solutions: Privately Accommodated IDPs in Georgia", within the project in the framework of the project "Developing Policy Recommendations on the Durable Solutions for the Phase III IDPs”. The presentation was attended by The Deputy Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia and representatives of Non-Governmental Organizations.The presentation was focused on the problems of the IDPs living in the private sector with regard to long-term solutions in order to solve the existing problems and obstacles and the consequent/appropriate recommendations were issued. The research Source:grass.org.ge

CSOs from various countries globally have gathered in 2010 in Istanbul and adopted the CSO Development Effectiveness Principles. Just recently the Partnership for CSO Development Effectiveness has released the Development Principles Fulfillment Report by the countries.The Civil Society Institute, which not only acknowledges the Istanbul Principles but works on their implementation in Georgia, actively cooperates with the Partnership. The report on the countries includes the examples of implementation of the Istanbul Principles in Georgia. The report. Additional resources. http://csogeorgia.org/uploads/selfRegulation/3/istanbul-principles-ge.pdf http://csogeorgia.org/uploads/selfRegulation/1/implementation-toolkit-ge.pdf

Tbilisi. Eurasia Partnership Foundation and its partner civil society organizations developed recommendations on the draft law on changes and amendments to the Food/Feed Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection Code. For the full text Source:epfound.ge

Tbilisi. Organization "World Experience for Georgia" - published comments on the document - "Social - Economic Development Strategy - Georgia 2020". "The strategy project contains important statements about European choice and market principles of transparency, good governance, improving the regulatory environment and implementation of the principles of European law that are very relevant for the field of energy. The document deserves praise however, however we won`t start detailed discussions of the benefits, instead, we`ll mainly focus on the gaps in energy part of the document, with the aim of improving the quality of the final strategy". For the full text Source:weg.ge