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Tbilisi. On 12 June 2019, the Public Defender of Georgia addressed the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Minister of IDPs, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia with a recommendation to evaluate a juvenile's living environment and the measures to be taken for the protection of the juvenile from repeated violence. ''The recommendation is based on the statement released by the Human Rights Center on 22 May 2019 regarding the repeated abuse of a juvenile and alleged forced marriage, as well as the results of the study carried out by the Public Defender's Office, including the monitoring visit. According to the Public Defender’s recommendation, adequate measures should be planned in order to protect and support the child victim of violence'', is noted in the statement. Read more… Source: ombudsman.ge

Tbilisi. According to Partnership for Human Rights (PHR), a psychiatric hospital has been ordered to pay GEL 5000 for unlawful hospitalization of a person. ''In October 2017, while coming out of her room in her home, Mariana Manveliani unexpectedly confronted several police officers and an emergency medical doctor. They took Mariana to a psychiatric hospital on the basis of a call of her mother with the intention to provide her with an involuntary psychiatric assistance. Transfer of Mariana took place in a way that both the patrol police and emergency medical doctor did not listen to explanations of Mariana in regard to the situation occurred in the family'' – is stated on the website of the organization. Read more… Source:phrgeorgia.wordpress.com

Tbilisi. Elevate your Company through Women’s Empowerment! – On June 15-16 UN Women in collaboration with the Business Leaders`Federation ''Women for Tomorrow'' will host a two-day forum for women’s economic empowerment in Batumi. ''The two-day forum will highlight businesses’ role in women’s empowerment, showcase inspirational role models and share information about the training, grant and education opportunities available for women. The guests will have a chance to attend various indoor and outdoor events organized during the forum, including workshop sessions for women entrepreneurs and start-uppers'', is noted in the statement. Read more… Source: Social network

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