Thomas Hammarberg

Georgian gov’t sets out goals for improving democracy

By | December 6th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Thomas Hammarberg. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The government of Georgia will two months from now approve a strategy of protecting human rights. The document will be complex aiming to establish a high standard of democracy. This is one of the results of a human rights conference in Tbilisi […]

EU advisor: Georgia must stop looking back into the past

By | September 23rd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Thomas Hammarberg. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–EU’s Special Advisor Thomas Hammarberg asks the government of Georgia to not politicize investigation of former officials and says Georgian society must stop looking back into the past and instead think about the future. Hammarberg, who is EU’s […]

Hammarberg: Hard to explain how May 17 could happen

By | May 21st, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , |

Thomas Hammarberg. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Thomas Hammarberg says it will be difficult to explain to Europe how the May 17 violence could occur in a democratic country such as Georgia. Christian Orthodox activists last Friday used violence to disrupt a planned peaceful event to mark […]