Analysis

25 June 2015

Legal Analysis of the Draft Law on Civil Service

IDFI welcomes the amendments introduced by the draft law of Georgia on Civil Service. The draft law includes important positive changes to the system of civil service in Georgia. Nevertheless we find that additional steps should be taken in order to improve the draft law on Civil Service and guarantee that it is harmonized with best international practice. You can find our recommendations in the full text of the legal analysis.

24 June 2015

Georgian citizens arrested and deported abroad in 2010-2015 years

According to the information provided by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia 3 715 Georgian citizens were arrested due to the offences committed abroad in 2010-2014. In 2013, as compared to 2010 the number of arrested people is tripled and amounts to 1 178 of Georgian citizens.

11 June 2015

Cases of Violating the Rights of IDFI in the Report of the Public Defender of Georgia

On May 29th, 2015 the Report of the Public Defender of Georgia on the Situation of Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia was published. The report covers the cases of human rights breaches, inter alia the case of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development violating the rights of IDFI as well as the case of illegal detainment of Giorgi Kldiashvili – the Director of IDFI.

9 June 2015

Regulating Secret Surveillance in Georgia: 2013-2015

After thousands of shocking cases of illegal surveillance and wiretapping by the government revealed prior to Parliamentary Elections 2012, regulating the issue was one of the main pre-Election promises of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.

4 June 2015

Statistical Information on the Number of Persons Fined by the Patrol Police

In 2014 year patrol police fined 1 316 006 persons. This rate is much higher than it was in 2013.

15 May 2015

Reasons Behind the Lack of Transparency of the Ministry of Finance

As it has been revealed, the major part of the information which has been subject to dispute between IDFI and MoF at different instances of courts for one year now, was included in the financial check report of State Audit Office (SAO). The Inconsistencies highlighted in the report confirmed the suspicion of IDFI that the reluctance of the Ministry to disclose the data was motivated by the aim of keeping the information on the inadequacies secret.

7 May 2015

Statistics of Persons with Disabilities in Georgia (2015)

According to the provided information by the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs , 118 651 persons with disabilities are registered as recipients of state social assistance by 1 March, 2015 in Georgia that constitutes only 3 percent of total population resided in Georgia (3 729.5) while WTO estimates the global disability prevalence of around 10%.

29 April 2015