Daily Archives: May 29, 2015

New children’s hospice to be opened in Tbilisi

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , |

(OSGF.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A new children’s hospice will be opened in Tbilisi, a joint project between Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF), the medical corporation EVEX and the president’s reserve fund. The hospice will open in the end of 2016 […]

Anti-hail rockets deployed to save crops in Georgia

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: Environment|Tags: , , |

(Delta.) TBILISI, DFWatch–An anti-hail system was activated yesterday and for the first time helped partly prevent a hailstorm from destroying harvest in Kakheti. But part of the harvest was destroyed because the system started functioning 20 minutes late. The State Security […]

NGOs criticize Georgia for not protecting minorities

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , |

The overcrowded mosque in Batumi. (DF Watch.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia criticize the government for not doing enough to eliminate discrimination of religious minorities, and underline that over the last two years, the country has seen a number of conflicts on a religious […]

Report: Informal governance is rife in Georgia

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: NGO news|

Presentation of the report at Tbilisi Marriott Hotel (GYLA) Tbilisi, DFWatch – 15 non-government organizations prepared report about 2 years of Georgian Dream’s being in power describing progress and challenges, also main problems for the government, among which there is ‘informal governance’, the parliament failing to fulfill […]

PDO calls for gender change in documents of trans-individuals

By | May 29th, 2015|Categories: Minorities|

Practice in Europe Tbilisi, DFWatch – The Public Defender’s Office (PDO) addressed the Ministry of Justice on May 18 proposing to allow trans-people to change their gender records in official documents. According to the PDO, there are provisions in the Georgian law that hint […]