Sopio Kiladze

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Human rights committee under fire in Georgia over U-turn on queer rights

by OC Media

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Sopo Kiladze, head of the Georgian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, is facing calls to resign after backtracking on a commitment to mark International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on 17 May. Members of local queer rights group the Equality Movement and other activists gathered outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi on Tuesday morning. ‘Her activities and values are in conflict with the principles of human rights and equality’, the Equality Movement said in a sta

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Georgia’s Rights Committee supports bill against ‘insulting religious feelings’

by OC Media

•3 min read

The Georgian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee is to create a working group to develop a bill against ‘insulting religious feelings’. The bill was co-authored and supported by two conservative Georgian groups. Emzar Kvitsiani, an MP from the Alliance of Patriots, a conservative party with six seats in parliament, and Zviad Tomaradze, head of Georgia’s Demographic Society XXI, a non-governmental group known for making homophobic and xenophobic statements, introduced the bill to the Human R