Programme News: lawyers and HR Defenders
The Moot Court Competition
A moot court competition was organised for lawyers and human rights defenders from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine was held in Strasbourg in the framework of the CoE and EU Joint Programme “Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic...
Thematic workshop on Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights
The Council of Europe, together with the Georgian Bar Association and the National Institute of Human Rights, is organized 2 thematic workshops on “Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights”. This activity is organised in the framework of the European Union and Council of Europe Joint...
Seminar for Prosecutors on European Anti-discrimination Standards
Council of Europe, in the framework of its joint Programme with the European Union “Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and of the Revised European Social Charter (RESC)”, is organising a...
Thematic Workshop on Gender-based Discrimination
Council of Europe, in the framework of its joint Programme with the European union “Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and of the Revised European Social Charter (RESC)”, together with the...
Georgia against Discrimination
Legal and political aspects of non-discrimination will be in focus of a conference on 3 December 2014 initiated by the group of international agencies in Georgia: Council of Europe, European Union, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Judicial Independence and Legal...
Georgian lawyers gather in Tbilisi to learn about the European Social Charter
Tbilisi, 7 November, 2014, More than 50 licensed lawyers and human rights defenders took part in a workshop organised by the Council of Europe and the European Union on the Revised European Social Charter. The European Social Charter is a Council of Europe’s treaty signed in 1961 and revised in...
Workshop on Social Rights
In the framework of the Council of Europe and European Union Joint Programme “Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic application of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and of the Revised European Social Charter (RESC)”, a regional project underway...
Seminar on Admissibility Standards to the European Court of Human Rights
On 30 May, 2014 the Council of Europe held a seminar on “Admissibility Criteria under the European Convention of Human Rights”. 60 lawyers and 15 human rights defenders and law students attended the seminar, which took place at the premises of the Free University of Georgia. The seminar was...
International Conference on Legal Education
On 8 and 9 April 2014 the Council of Europe will organise a regional conference in Tbilisi in the framework of the European Union / Council of Europe Joint Programme "Strengthening the capacity of lawyers and human rights defenders for domestic application of the European Convention on Human...
Workshop on the Right to Respect For one's Private and Family Life through the Prism of Non-discrimination
On 27 March 2014 the Council of Europe will organise a workshop on the Right to Respect for one's Private and Family Life through the Prism of Non-discrimination. The workshop organised in partnership with the Free University and the Georgian Bar Association aims to ensure better understanding of...
