At least 22 facts regarding corruption in the court system have come to light, providing the grounds for initiating an investigation or examining the integrity of judges

We, the member organizations of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Georgian National Platform, are raising our voices against the legislative initiative to abolish the mandatory gender quota and consider it inadmissible to support this initiative by the Parliament!

On January 30, 2024, a one-day workshop was held to discuss mechanisms for the control of the work of a Mayor and its office by the Municipality Councils.

On October 11, 2023 the Group of Independent Lawyers and Democracy Index - Georgia, with the support of the USAID Rule of Law Program, organised international online discussion: The Role of Private Lawyers and Bar Associations in Judicial Reform.

Georgia awaits the European Commission's recommendation on granting it EU membership candidate status.

The sanctions imposed by the U.S. on the Georgian judges, Mikheil Chinchaladze, Levan Murusidze, and Irakli Shengelia; a former judge, Valerian Tsertsvadze; and the former Chief Prosecutor, Otar Partskhaladze, have not been followed by effective steps on the part of the Georgian authorities.

We are thrilled to share the article by Andrej Bozhinovksi : "Correcting Miscarriages of Justice in Croatia: Accession and Time-Limited Retention of DNA Profiles in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights”. Andrej Bozhinovski - judicial expert from North Macedonia is a member of our International Network of Judicial Reformers (INJR).

On August 1, 2023, the Group of Independent Lawyers and Democracy Index - Georgia, with USAID Rule of Law Program support, organized an international online discussion on the role of independent judicial governance in Eastern European countries.

On July 6, the online discussion: The Role of Judicial Associations for an Independent and Accountable Judiciary was organized by the Group of Independent lawyers (GIL), Democracy Index - Georgia (DIG) and the International Network of Judicial Reformers (INJR), with the support of the USAID Rule of Law Program.