Today at the state legislature in Tbilisi, Transparency International Georgia (TI Georgia) presented the assessment of the work of the Georgian Parliament in 2014.TI Georgia’s 2014 report on the performance of the Parliament is based on informa

The radical public procurement reforms in the last five years have made the Georgian system one of the most transparent in the world. TI Georgia and a number of international organizations have praised the system. Nonetheless, a public procurement sy

 We, the signatory organizations, express our utmost concern about an ethnically motivated incident of ill-treatment in a police station, which is shown in footage disseminated by the media yesterday evening. A lot of international treaties, as

  Our appeal to you concerns the draft law registered with Parliament by the Government initiative that concerns separation of the Security Services from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Pursuant to the decision of the Parliament Bureau, the fi

In order to prevent future instances of corruption and end any current ones, Georgia urgently needs to reform its policies regarding the verification of asset declarations. Currently, Georgia has a system for public disclosure of the assets of public

  On 19-20 June, TI Georgia, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) and the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) are attending the Venice Commission Plenary Session where the draft amendments to the law on Prosecut

On 5 June the Georgian Dream coalition announced that the 2016 parliamentary elections will again be conducted based on the current mixed electoral system, with several changes to be implemented. These changes include setting up a 50% threshold for t

Legislative initiative of Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee was registered in the Parliament on 19 May 2015, authored by MP Paata Kiknavelidze. The bill provides for amendments to the Civil Code of Georgia, Civil Procedure Code of Georgia, the

 Transparency International Georgia released today a comprehensive national integrity system report examining the functioning of 12 institutions in Georgia. The report “National Integrity System Assessment Georgia 2015” was prepared under the fr

  The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary would like to comment on the Government of Georgia authored bill drafted as part of the Ministry of Interior reform, which provides for separation of the State Security Service from t