Promoting human rights and equality together with Tbilisi Open Air festival

Back Promoting human rights and equality together with Tbilisi Open Air festival

The Council of Europe Office in Georgia teamed up together with the Tbilisi Open Air festival. In addition to the quality musical programme, this year the visitors of Tbilisi Open Air festival also had a chance to discover more about equality and non-discrimination at the Human Rights Corner set up by the Council of Europe Office in Georgia.

The Human Rights Corner was first introduced by the Council of Europe in 2019 in the framework of the ‘I Choose Equality’ campaign, aimed at promoting equality and diversity at the festival site through innovative and creative actions. This year the Human Rights Corner welcomed festival participants with various games, quizzes on women’s rights, equality, diversity and freedom of speech. It organised the competition on equality and diversity and run discussions on women’s rights and Internet governance and data protection.

This year’s Human Rights Corner engaged hundreds of visitors of the festival in various fun and educational activities to promote core value of the Council of Europe such as protection of human rights. Winners of various interactive competitions received awards inviting them to continue supporting human rights by visibility actions.
Photos from the different activities can be found here.

This activity was implemented in the framework of the Council of Europe projects: ‘Promoting the Effective Protection of Equality and Non-Discrimination in Georgia’, ‘Strengthening Media Freedom, Internet Governance and Personal Data Protection in Georgia (SMIP-GE)’ and ‘Promoting an Integrated Approach to End Violence Against Women and Reinforcing Gender Equality in Georgia’.

24-26 June 2022

Diminuer la taille du texte
Augmenter la taille du texte
Imprimer la page

The Council of Europe project “Supporting Freedom of Media and Internet in Georgia” is built upon achievements of two previous EU-CoE projects in Georgia “Promoting Freedom, Professionalism and Pluralism of the Media” and “Protecting Internet Freedom through Legislation and Arrangements for multi-stakeholder Dialogue” under the Partnership for Good Governance (EU-CoE) that where implemented during 2015-2017. Those two projects’ achievements included strengthening the capacities of the broadcasting regulatory authority (National Communications Commission), journalistic self-regulatory body (Charter of Journalistic Ethics), addressing challenges linked to freedom of expression on-line, establishment of multi-stakeholder dialogue with regard to the Internet and promotion of the CoE standards on the internet and human rights.

Project Objectives

Supporting national authorities in bringing legal and policy framework and practice on audio-visual services and media literacy in line with the CoE and European standards;
Further improvement of professionalism, responsibility and respect of ethical rules among journalists;
Supporting national authorities in further development and proper implementation of Internet related legal framework and regulations;
Strengthening the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms through the reinforcement of the protection of individuals with regard to their right to privacy and right to data protection.

Project activities

Expert assessments, opinions and recommendations on the multisectorial cooperation, legal and policy framework governing the media and internet, as well as countryspecific studies and publications;
Workshops, training sessions, conferences and study visits;
Development of the GNCC webpage on Media Literacy;
Development of the handbook on Ethical Journalism

Project Partners and Beneficiaries

Georgian National Communications Commission;

Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics;

Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia;

State Inspector's Service of Georgia;

Small and Medium Telecom Operator’s Association of Georgia;

Civil Society;

Academia: Faculties of Journalism of Universities.

Length of the Project

The project runs from 1 February 2019 until 31 January 2021