Tbilisi. More than 500 delegates from more than 15 countries participated in the Annual International Investment Forum - Role of Good Governance Reform in Economic Development & Investment Attraction - held in Tbilisi.  It hosted about 50 speakers, including a well-known investment expert, Richard C. Wilson, who is known in the United States as the manager of investments accumulated by wealthy and ultra-wealthy families.  IDFI's Panel at International Investment Forum. A panel organized by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) included a discussion on the Role of Good Governance Reform in Economic Development & Investment Attraction.  Read more Source: The web-page of the organization

Guria. Civil Society Regional Forum held in the Culture and Recreational Park in Ozurgeti, Guria Region. The goals of the regional forum are to demonstrate the activities of local CSOs and to promote volunteerism. Up to ten local CSOs and the representatives of small business participated in the forum. The event was launched with the concert of children's group "Binuli". Then the organizers of the forum delivered the speeches and underlined the importance of the event. During the forum, the most active volunteer in Guria "Euro Club" was awarded by the "Time Bank", the platform to promote volunteerism. Within the event, the technique of working on Teqa and the preparation of the local tea were presented. Along with other entertaining activities, participants showed examples of making bamboo items. Visitors were also provided with the opportunity to choose an activity the most suitable for them and they could voluntarily involve in the work of local organizations. The participants were introduced with the bilateral volunteerism platform “Time Bank". The forum also included the quiz. Many Presents were gifted to the visitors of the Time Bank tent. The quiz questions were related to the culture of volunteerism in Georgia. The forum is organized in the frame of the project ”Georgian Civil Society Sustainability Initiative”. The project was developed and is implemented by the consortium led by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in cooperation with four Georgian Civil Society Organizations: Civil Society Institute (CSI), Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC), Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) and Education Development and Employment Center (EDEC). The project is funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

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Tbilisi. ''Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center'' (EMC) publishes a viewpoint of Tsotne Tskhvediani - ''Second quality managers against citizens''. ''In countries, where there are no traditional parties on a political scene, people are more often forced to be sitting on tails of political scandals. Here, the space of political parties has been taken up by new politicians who used to lead their campaigns through the form of political management. Political theories and scientific knowledge are replaced by images of politicians, their personalities. With this type of approach, politics is perceived as a business and, respectively, the country is managed as a private company. At the same time, the moralization of politics begins'', - is stated in the viewpoint. Read more... Source:The website of the organization

Tbilisi. GYLA submitted critical comments to the Parliament of Georgia in regard to the legislative package prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and initiated by the Government of Georgia. GYLA considers that norms initiated in the Law on Police do not comply with basic rights guaranteed by the second Chapter of the Constitution of Georgia, commitments undertaken through international agreements of Georgia and, besides, basic legal principles enhanced by the applicable legislation of Georgia related to protection of personal data. Read more… Source:The website of the organization

Tbilisi. Civil society organizations call on the Parliament of Georgia to timely review the issue of termination of authority of Zaza Kharebava, a member of the High Council of Justice. "The High Council of Justice of Georgia starts the process of selection of judges of the Supreme Court. Today, on June 7, there will be held a sitting to register applicants of the competition as candidates, which sitting will be followed by several stages of secret ballots at the Council. In this circumstance it is crucially important to have the Parliament of Georgia review, within the shortest period of time, the issue of lawfulness of election of Zaza Kharebava, a non-judge member of the High Council of Justice, to the Council and termination of his authority. On May 14, 2019, the "Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary” applied to the Parliament of Georgia demanding to examine the issue of lawfulness of election of Zaza Kharebava, a non-judge member of the High Council of Justice. According to the statement of the Coalition, there were violated requirements of law in the process of election of Zaza Kharebava as far as his candidacy was presented to the Parliament by an unauthorized subject”, - is noted in the statement. Read more… Source:https://emc.org.ge

Tbilisi. Based on the appeal of the Public Defender of Georgia, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) will monitor the ongoing process of selection of judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia. "Due to high importance of the process of selection of judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Public Defender appealed to the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights on May 27 of the current year and requested to monitor the process. It should be taken into consideration that again on the basis of a request of the Public Defender, the same organization, on April 17 of the current year, published a legal opinion and recommendations related to a bill initiated in the Parliament in regard to the issue of selection of judges of the Supreme Court. Monitoring of the process of selection of judges will be a logical continuation of this process. By the letter of May 30 of the current year, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has confirmed its readiness to observe the selection process and its compliance with both national legislation and international standards as well as good practices”, - is stated in the information released by the Office of the Public Defender. Read more… Source: The website of the Office of the Public Defender

Tbilisi. "Women’s Fund in Georgia” presents a blog of the Executive Director of the Fund – "Activism is always in danger”. "Activism is in danger in Georgia - probably not only in Georgia, but for me this is primarily alarming and that is why I am addressing you - in Georgia activism is in danger!”, - considers Nana Pantsulaia, - "Activists and activist campaigns are the force that grows citizens, develops civil society and forms the perception of justice. There is a lot more that can be said as to why we need activism, but to my opinion it is not necessary because I think we already know it. Now we have to say what activism itself needs”. Read more… Source:The website of the organization

Tbilisi. The Center for Training and Consultancy (СTС) has published a Georgian translation of the Oxford Handbook of Civil Society. ''The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society allows the reader to get acquainted with contribution, history and theories of civil society around the world in a different cultural context'', - is stated on the website of the organization in a social network. Read more… Source:The website of the organization in a social network