Tbilisi. Legal and political aspects of non-discrimination were in focus of a workshop for legal practitioners that took place at Courtyard Marriott. The workshop brought together representatives of the Government and Parliament of Georgia, Public Defender's Office, Constitutional Court, practicing lawyers and leading Georgian non-governmental organizations working in the area of human rights.

The workshop was organised by a group of international organisations in Georgia: Council of Europe and European Union in the framework of their joint programme "Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic application of the European Convention on Human Rights and of the Revised European Social Charter", European Union through its Project on Criminal Justice System Reform, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project of the East-West Management Institute (EWMI/JILEP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Open Society - Georgia Foundation (OSGF) and the American Bar Association, Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI).

Source: osgf.ge