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14 May 2015

Meeting on the Issues of the Parliamentary Openness

Participants of the meeting discussed the importance of access of the ethnical minorities to the webpage and to the documents of the Parliament of Georgia

13 May 2015

IDFI Hosted Press Secretaries of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic

On Friday, 8th of May the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information hosted press secretaries of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic

6 May 2015

The director of IDFI participated in 48th annual meeting of Asian Development Bank in Baku

The Director of IDFI, Giorgi Kldiashvili participated in 48th annual meeting of Asian Development Bank (ABD) in Baku. The title this year was- “Fostering Partnership for development”.

1 May 2015

Parliament of Georgia joined the Open Government Partnership

With singing the Memorandum, Georgia became the first country in the region starting to implement the Principles of Open Parliament. The official ceremony of signing the Memorandum took place in the building of the Parliament in Kutaisi.

28 April 2015

Issues of Open Parliament in OGP Member Countries

The research highlights the countries that have best practice and a few commitments regarding the Parliamentary Openness. It is notified that OGP member countries pay the major attention to the implementation of the innovative approaches towards the parliamentary openness

27 April 2015

The Meeting of the Non-Governmental and International Organizations of the Open Parliament Georgia Working Group

The Participants of the meeting discussed the issues of the involvement of the Parliament of Georgia in the Open Government Partnership Initiative (OGP) and the establishment of the Open Parliament Principle.

24 April 2015

Inconsistently Low Salary Remunerations at National Center for Manuscripts

According to the data provided by national center for manuscripts, IDFI concluded that employees of center have inconsistently law salary remunerations

24 April 2015

Signing the Declaration on Parliamentary Openness and the Memorandum

EU/UNDP Project “Strengthening the System of Parliamentary Democracy in Georgia” in cooperation with the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI), with the partnership of the Parliament of Georgia, is implementing the project “Supporting Parliament of Georgia Involvement in Open Government Partnership”.

21 April 2015

Abortion Statistics in Georgia 2004-2014

IDFI prepared the analyse of the received information from Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia about the number of abortions in 2004-2014 period

15 April 2015

Statistical Information Received from the Prosecutor’s Office on the Number of Red Notices Circulated by the INTERPOL as well as on Extraditing Wanted Nationals of Georgia (2010-15)

On March 26th, 2015 IDFI referred to the Prosecutor's Office and requested statistical information for the years of 2010-2015 on the number of motions filed by the Prosecutors Office to the General Assembly of INTERPOL with the request of circulating red notice and number of these motions granted. IDFI also requested statistical data on the number of motions filed to the law enforcement agencies of foreign countries on extraditing wanted nationals of Georgia and the ratio of granted and denied motions. Find the detailed information in the blog post.