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Georgian sex ed classes will be ‘opt in’, promises author of Child’s Rights Code

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Sopo Kiladze speaking about the child's rights code at a CoE-organised dis­cus­sion in Tbilisi on 21 March. (parliament.ge)

Parents in Georgia will have to opt-in to new sex education classes for their children, the head of parliament’s human rights committee Sopo Kiladze has said.

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School director sues Circassian-language teacher in Kabardino-Balkaria

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Maryam Bagova and her sup­port­ers outside the court in Nalchik. (Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria)

A school director in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria is suing one of her former employees after she spoke out against the lack of Cir­cass­ian language lessons in the school. [Read more…]

Georgia axes secondary school exams in controversial education reforms

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(Georgia's Ministry of Education)

Georgia’s education ministry has announced plans to scrap stan­dard­ised grad­u­a­tion testing for secondary school students and to drop one of the four Unified National Exams — the stan­dard­ised entrance exams for Georgian uni­ver­si­ties. [Read more…]

In pictures | The gravel is grayer on the other side: no sports fields in Khevsureti

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Boys do press-ups on the grassless football field during a physical education class. These classes are lead by Zaza Gogochuri, the sports teacher for year 5 to year 12. ‘We play football a lot,’ he says. ‘If there were more sports facil­i­ties, I would be able to teach them bas­ket­ball and boxing.’ (Ian McNaught Davis/OC Media)

In the mountain village of Barisakho, in Georgia’s northern, his­tor­i­cal Khev­sureti region, children at the local school have nowhere to practice sports. [Read more…]

MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

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Otar Kakhidze, Sergi Kapanadze and Elene Khoshtaria (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)

Inves­ti­ga­tors from the Khorava Street murder case faced ques­tion­ing from MPs on Monday, into alleged failures by the inves­ti­ga­tion. A par­lia­men­tary com­mis­sion was set up in the wake of large street protests in Tbilisi, which followed the partial acquittal of the suspects in the case and alle­ga­tions the inves­ti­ga­tion was mis­han­dled. [Read more…]

UNM officially joins anti-government protests in Tbilisi

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UNM MP Nika Melia (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

The oppo­si­tion United National Movement Party (UNM), as well as two other minor parties, has announced they are offi­cial­ly joining anti-gov­ern­ment protests currently taking place in Tbilisi. UNM MP Nika Melia addressed crowds gathered outside par­lia­ment after meeting with protest leaders and said the protests would resume on Sunday at 18:00 where they will announce a plan for how to continue [Read more…]

Georgia’s chief prosecutor resigns amidst mass protests

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Zaza Saralidze (Dato Parulava/OC Media)

Georgia’s chief pros­e­cu­tor, Irakli Shotadze, has resigned, following large protests in Tbilisi. The protests have been sparked by what critics call a ‘com­pro­mised inves­ti­ga­tion’ into the fatal stabbing of two teenagers outside a school in Tbilisi in December. On Thursday, Tbilisi City Court found one teenager guilty of killing Levan Dadunashvili, while another was found guilty of the lesser charge of attempted murder on Davit Saralidze, leaving open the question of who killed him. [Read more…]

Tbilisi court partially acquits teenagers of fatal school stabbings

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People gathering at the Prosecutor’s Office where the father of murdered teenager Davit Saralidze is holding a demon­stra­tion (Tatia Khaliani /Liberali)

Tbilisi City Court has acquitted two teenagers of the murder of Davit Saralidze, one of the two teenagers killed in a school brawl in December. The court found one of the defendant’s guilty of killing the second victim, Levan Dadunashvili, while the other was found guilty of the attempted murder of Saralidze. The pair are to be sentenced on 1 June. [Read more…]

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