Sopo Kiladze

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Georgian activists protest for human rights committee head to resign

by OC Media

•5 min read

The head of Georgia’s Human Rights Committee, Sopo Kiladze, is facing calls for her resignation — the second time activists have demanded she go in under a year. Activists from around a dozen human rights groups, including the Equality Movement, Georgian Women’s Movement, and Partnership for Human Rights, gathered outside the Tbilisi parliament building on Friday. In their event description on Facebook, the groups said Kiladze’s ‘personal attitude towards fundamental human rights makes he

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Georgian supermarket employees forced to purchase outdated products

by OC Media

•4 min read

Four employees of supermarket chain Nikora have accused the company of violating their labour rights, saying the management required them to buy outdated products from their stores. On Friday, the company’s director Davit Urushadze confirmed the reports to TV Imedi but claimed employees were made to purchase only outdated products they had failed to remove from shelves. The workers said on Friday that their salaries, ranging from ₾300–₾450 ($120–$180) per month, were regularly cut without

Editorial

Editorial | Georgia’s government must stop legitimising homophobic violence

by OC Media

•5 min read

The authorities’ failure to confront homophobia in Georgian society has perpetuated hate, violence, and emboldened the far right. If the government is truly serious about democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, they must dare to pursue policies based on equality, no matter the political cost. When there are international organisations present in the room, Georgian politicians turn more Catholic than the Pope. That was the case on 2 September when parliament’s Human Rights Committee

Georgia

NGOs call on Georgia’s Human Rights Committee head to resign after queer activists’ protest

by OC Media

•2 min read

A group of 31 Georgian non-governmental organisations are demanding the resignation of Parliament’s Human Rights Committee chair, Sopo Kiladze. The groups include Transparency International Georgia, the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC), and Open Society Georgia Foundation. Queer rights group the Equality Movement organised a demonstration outside Tbilisi’s parliament building on Tuesday after Kiladze told Liberali that the committee will not mark International Day Again