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Posted on: 24 Jan 2024
INFORMATION INTEGRITY COALITION REA
Targeted attacks on civil organizations by the Georgian government and ruling party leaders continue. Recently, the statements made by high politica...See More
Posted on: 20 Jan 2024
Response to Shalva Papuashvili’s St
The primary electoral strategy of the Georgian Dream appears to revolve around manipulating the name of the Georgian Orthodox Church and employing ...See More
Posted on: 02 Nov 2023
Appeal of Georgian non-governmental
Georgia awaits the European Commission's recommendation on granting it EU membership candidate status. We, the undersigned Georgian NGOs, share a co...See More
Posted on: 19 Jul 2023
Want to Help Tackle Disinformation?
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will equip professionals who are passionate about tackling disinformation to hold workshops and eve...See More
Posted on: 12 Jul 2023
Open Call for Youngsters at DW Akad
The Media Development Foundation (MDF) and Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA) joint program - Myth Detector Lab - calls for youngsters to join an intens...See More
Posted on: 05 Jun 2023
Responding to the information campa
An active information campaign against the rector of Ilia State University has begun in recent days. With the campaign, the head of the university ...See More
Posted on: 10 Mar 2023
Open Call for Youngsters at DW Akad
The Media Development Foundation (MDF) and Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA) joint program - Myth Detector Lab - calls for youngsters to join an intensi...See More
Posted on: 06 Mar 2023
Media Advocacy Coalition appeals to
Media Advocacy Coalition appeals to the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Mr. Shalva Papuashvili, to immediately restore the accreditation of j...See More
Posted on: 21 Feb 2023
RUSSIAN LAW IS NOT THE WILL OF GEOR
We, the people of Georgia, strongly oppose the bill initiated by the members of the Parliamentary Majority, also endorsed by the Speaker of Parliame...See More
Posted on: 09 Jan 2023
Media Programs Manager
The Media Development Foundation (MDF) announces the call for the position of Media Programs Manager. Main Responsibilities: Managing media...See More
Posted on: 25 Aug 2022
"Georgian Dream" is Attempting to R
The aggressive campaign of "Georgian Dream" against local non-governmental organizations is fast approaching an alarming level. The Georgian Dream'...See More
Posted on: 28 Feb 2022
Address of the Georgian People to t
To: H. E. Charles Michel, President of the European Council H. E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission H. ...See More
Posted on: 03 Feb 2022
MDF announces a call for the positi
Media Development Foundation announces a call for the position of Fundraising and Organizational Development Manager. Main Responsibilities: ...See More
Posted on: 03 Feb 2022
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Posted on: 26 Dec 2021
Statement of the NGOs on the possib
On December 25, 2021, it was reportedthat the Parliament of Georgia, in an expedited manner, plans to review a draft law aimed at abolishing the St...See More
Posted on: 19 Nov 2021
Assaults against the Public Defende
The undersigned civil society organizations, would like to express our grave concern regarding the frequent verbal assaults against the Ombudsperson...See More
Posted on: 01 Nov 2021
Non-Governmental Organisations’ Joi
This statement is issued in response to the process of the 2021 Municipal Elections. Despite the fact that the existing legislation and the recent ...See More
Posted on: 13 Oct 2021
Call for ‘EaP Media Hub’ Member Jou
The Media Development Foundation (MDF), with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), is announcing a Small Grants Competition for the me...See More
Posted on: 28 Jul 2021
Georgian Dream decision undermines
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, would like to react to the statement by the Chair of the ruling party Georgian Dream, Mr. Irakli Ko...See More
Posted on: 19 Jul 2021
Letter of media outlets and civil s
Batumi International Conference July 19, 2021 Dear President Michel, We are grateful for your engagement and continuous efforts that you persona...See More
Posted on: 09 Jul 2021
Statement on the Large-Scale Violen
The cases of violation of journalists' rights in Georgia have reached a critical point. Hereby, we reiterate that the government has failed to guara...See More
Posted on: 23 Feb 2021
Statement on Nika Melia's Arrest
The Georgian Government sent police forces into the office of the United National Movement [UNM] at 7:30 today, 23 February. This special measure ai...See More
Posted on: 14 Jan 2021
NGO’s Statement on the Restriction
Civic platform "No to phobia!" And the „Coalition for Equality" believe that the situation in Georgia in terms of protection of freedom of religion...See More
Posted on: 21 Dec 2020
MDF Responds to President’s Adminis
On December 16, the Administration of the President of Georgia applied to the Media Development Foundation (MDF) with a request to study the post pu...See More
Posted on: 05 Nov 2020
Thomson Reuters Foundation launches
Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the Sabin Vaccine Institute launches an 8 day-long training programme "Reporting on Immunisation and Va...See More
Posted on: 04 Nov 2020
NGOs assessment of the 2020 parliam
On October 31, 2020, the parliamentary elections were held in Georgia in accordance with the updated electoral system. The citizens of Georgia had the...See More
Posted on: 28 Sep 2020
Hacking the fake news
Media Development Foundation (MDF) invites developers, graphic designers, media literacy specialists, and others who are passionate about digital tech...See More
Posted on: 04 Sep 2020
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Posted on: 29 Jun 2020
GEORGIAN CIVIL SOCIETY'S OPEN LETTE
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Facebook Nick Clegg, Vice-President - Global Affairs and Communications, Facebook June 29, 2...See More
Posted on: 24 Jun 2020
Statement of the Non-governmental O
In the second half of 2020, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) will elect nine new members at the eighteen session (Confe...See More
Posted on: 04 May 2020
Civil Platform “No to Phobia!” Resp
Civil Platform "No to Phobia!” expresses its concern about the comments containing hate speech on the ground of ethnicity made by Zaza (Zaal) Abashidz...See More
Posted on: 03 Mar 2020
Terms of reference for a consultanc
1. INTRODUCTION The Media Development Foundation, the MDF, is a Georgian non-profit organization which was established in April 20...See More
Posted on: 25 Nov 2019
Manager of Fundraising and Organiza
Media Development Foundation announces a call for the position of Manager of Fundraising and Organizational Development. Main Responsibiliti...See More
Posted on: 15 Nov 2019
Address of Georgian Civil Society O
Dear President Stanishev, Dear Secretary-General Post, We, the undersigned representatives of the Georgian civil society organizations a...See More
Posted on: 23 Aug 2019
Prosecution of TV Pirveli owner’s f
On 22 August 2019, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, within the framework of the Khazaradze-Japaridze case, indicted businessman Avtandil ...See More
Posted on: 22 Aug 2019
Statement of NGOs on the Ongoing St
We, the undersigned organizations, want to express our concern about the staff changes in Rustavi 2 TV that were announced and carried out by its ne...See More
Posted on: 09 Aug 2019
Statement of NGOs on the Charges Ma
We, the undersigned organizations, are writing in response to the statement released by the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia in relation to the charges ...See More
Posted on: 31 Jul 2019
Call for Participation in “Fightin
4-11 October, Berlin (Germany) Media Development Foundation (MDF) in partnership with Deutsche Gesselschaft (Germany) calls for participat...See More
Posted on: 18 Jul 2019
Statement of NGOs on the Developmen
We, the undersigned organizations, are writing this statement in response to the recent developments related to the European Court of Human Rights’ ju...See More
Posted on: 21 Jun 2019
Statement of Non-Governmental Organ
We, the undersigned organizations, would like to express our grave concern over the events that took place on June 20. To our greatest regret, the pub...See More
Posted on: 20 Jun 2019
Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia
The Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia would like to respond to the particular intensification in the recent period of the hybrid warfare waged b...See More
Posted on: 18 Jun 2019
Statement by non-governmental organ
We, the undersigned organisations, would like to express our solidarity with the organisers of Tbilisi Pride and LGBT+ activists whose freedom of expr...See More
Posted on: 07 May 2019
One More Lawsuit Endangers Editoria
In the beginning of May, Nino Nizharadze, 9% shareholder of TV Company Rustavi 2, filed a lawsuit to the Tbilisi City Court, seeking payment of 26 m...See More
Posted on: 22 Apr 2019
Statement about Natia Kapanadze's I
We negatively assess the decision of Council of Advisors of the Ajara TV and Radio of a Public Broadcaster to dismiss TV Director Natia Kapanadze prem...See More
Posted on: 22 Mar 2019
MDF: Public Broadcaster Misleads So
Throughout the dispute that has been underway in recent days about the Media Development Foundation’s (MDF) study, the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GP...See More
Posted on: 05 Mar 2019
Mamuka Khazaradze’s statement confi
When speaking at yesterday’s session of the Budget and Finance Committee in Parliament of Georgia, Mamuka Khazaradze, founder of TBC Bank, said that, ...See More
Posted on: 01 Feb 2019
“No to Phobia!” Civil Platform Req
"No to Phobia!” civil platform echoes the fact of ruthless murder of the human rights defenders Vitaly Safarov, 25, and calls on the Prosecutor’s Of...See More
Posted on: 17 Dec 2018
Call for participation
Third Spring School on Media Systems: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives. Focus on Central Eastern Europe (Perugia, Italy, April 1st to...See More
Posted on: 23 Nov 2018
The Joint Statement of Non-Governme
Non-Governmental Organisations, signatory to this statement, express their utmost concern regarding the contents of the statement made by the Office o...See More
Posted on: 14 Nov 2018
Religious and Human Rights Organiza
We, the signatory organizations, express our concern about the arbitrary detention of Sheikh Miratag Asadov, the chairman of the Supreme Religious Adm...See More
Posted on: 06 Nov 2018
Mikheil Saakashvili’s statements ar
The ‘No to Phobia!’ civil platform is responding to a xenophobic and anti-social statement of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia a...See More
Posted on: 04 Oct 2018
NGOs on Salome Zurabishvili’s Xenop
Non-governmental organizations respond and condemn the xenophobic statement of Salome Zurabishvili, a presidential candidate supported by Georgian Dre...See More
Posted on: 19 Sep 2018
Statement of No to Phobia Civil Pla
We, the member organizations of the No to Phobia civil platform, would like to respond to the statement made by Metropolitan Petre Tsaava of Chko...See More
Posted on: 18 Sep 2018
Non-governmental organizations’ sta
We, the undersigned organizations, would like to comment on the final conclusion made by the Temporary Investigative Commission of Parliament of Georg...See More
Posted on: 06 Sep 2018
Russian media forum in Georgia is y
Georgia has been a target of Russia’s aggressive actions many times. One-fifth of the country’s territory has been occupied as a result. In addition, ...See More
Posted on: 02 Aug 2018
Statement of the For Euro-Atlantic
The developments that have taken place in the Euro-Atlantic space in the past several years create a suitable geostrategic environment for acceleratin...See More
Posted on: 25 Jul 2018
Joint statement by non-governmental
We, the undersigned organizations, would like to once again comment on the process of the investigation that was carried out and continues regarding t...See More
Posted on: 20 Jun 2018
Comments of nongovernmental and med
We appreciate the importance of the initiative to create a legislative framework for the development of media literacy in Georgia and the willingnes...See More
Posted on: 02 Jun 2018
NGOS URGE AUTHORITIES TO FUNDAMENTA
Human rights organizations are closely following the mass protest in Tbilisi and other cities in recent days and declare their solidarity with Saralid...See More
Posted on: 01 May 2018
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS DEMA
The Parliament of Georgia, the representative body of the people, must play a decisive role in establishing the human rights standards and monitoring ...See More
Posted on: 25 Apr 2018
Statement of the “No to Phobia!” ci
The initiative submitted to the Parliament of Georgia by MP Emzar Kvitsiani, which provides for criminal liability for "insults to religious feelings”...See More
Posted on: 21 Apr 2018
Statement concerning the case of Ru
Signatory organizations responding to the information published by Rustavi 2, concerning the Georgian government’s request submitted to the European C...See More
Posted on: 20 Apr 2018
Joint Statement of No To Phobia Civ
We negatively assess the approval of the Gender Equality Council 2018-2020 Action Plan on April 17, 2018 by the Parliament of Georgia, as, on the one ...See More
Posted on: 09 Apr 2018
Joint Statement of No to Phobia Civ
The attack on black students in the evening of April 8 in Dighmis Masivi is extremely alarming. Video of the event shows racist statements and motiv...See More
Posted on: 05 Apr 2018
Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia
The Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia welcomes and supports the Georgian Government's peace initiative – Step Towards a Better Future, elaborated wi...See More
Posted on: 21 Mar 2018
Statement of civil platform “NO to
We would like to react on March 19 developments taken place at the building of Rustavi 2 and call on law-enforcement bodies...See More
Posted on: 13 Mar 2018
Georgian Government's policy toward
The Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia would like to respond to the recent discussion among the public concerning Georgian-Russian relations as wel...See More
Posted on: 28 Feb 2018
Unlawful transfer of property to Ot
On 15 February 2018, the State Audit Office published a compliance audit report assessing the management of property owned by Tbilisi Municipality i...See More
Posted on: 28 Feb 2018
Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia
We, the civil society organizations of Georgia express deep concern about the death of a Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in Tskhinvali prison...See More
Posted on: 26 Jan 2018
We call upon the President of Georg
For almost six months, the Georgian public has been witness to the injustices suffered by the teacher and manager of the private Demirel College, Mu...See More
Posted on: 29 Nov 2017
Legislative Amendments to Reinstate
On 22 November, the Government of Georgia presented to the parliament the amendments to the law "On the Structure, Authority and Rules of Operation ...See More
Posted on: 17 Nov 2017
Statement of non-governmental organ
Non-governmental organizations follow concerned the recent discrediting statements targeted at the current public defender Ucha Nanuashvili, as well...See More
Posted on: 02 Nov 2017
Member Organizations of No to Phobi
A group of civil society organizations, among them Media Development Foundation, Equality Movement, Tolerance and Diversity Institute, Georgian Demo...See More
Posted on: 02 Nov 2017
Non-governmental Organizations Requ
Civil society once again responds to the latest developments taking place at Public Service Broadcaster. Increasing influence of individuals connect...See More
Posted on: 31 Oct 2017
MDF Files Lawsuit against Georgian
On October 31, 2017, the Media Development Foundation (MDF) filed a lawsuit in Tbilisi City Court against the Georgian National Communications Commi...See More
Posted on: 25 Sep 2017
Statement on Limitation of Freedom
We urge the parliament of Georgia to consider the opinion of The Venice Commission[1], religious organizations[2], NGOs, academic institutions and l...See More
Posted on: 17 Aug 2017
NGOs respond to the case of a Georg
The signatory organizations respond to facts of persecution of a Georgian civil activist and journalist Tamar Mearakhishvili who lives in Akhalgor...See More
Posted on: 02 Aug 2017
Address of Civil Society Organizati
To the President of Georgia, To the Parliament of Georgia, To the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) To Special Ra...See More
Posted on: 28 Jul 2017
Georgian CSOs address Vice Presiden
24 non-governmental organizations based in Georgia address an open letter to the Vice-President of the United States Dear Vice President Pence, ...See More
Posted on: 25 Jul 2017
NGOs Respond to Prime Minister’s St
On July 23rd 2017, Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili elaborated on the relations between the State and Georgian Orthodox Church at th...See More
Posted on: 06 Jul 2017
Statement of the NGOs on the illega
On July 4th, 2017 Russian occupation forces illegally installed a so-called Border Sign across the occupation line in the Tskhinvali region, in th...See More
Posted on: 27 Jun 2017
Alert on Deterioration of Democracy
We are sending this message on behalf of 30 civil society originations to alert you on some very damaging actions by the ruling political party in G...See More
Posted on: 22 Jun 2017
Statement of the Non-Governmental O
Constitution of a democratic country represents supreme law based on national consensus and serves as an internal legal guarantee for human rights p...See More
Posted on: 21 Jun 2017
The Ruling Party’s Decision about t
On June 19, the ruling party unveiled its decision to keep the mixed election system for the 2020 parliamentary elections and to replace it with a...See More
Posted on: 31 May 2017
NGOs Respond to Forced Disappearanc
The undersigned organizations express deep concern about the alleged forced disappearance of the Azerbaijani civil activist and journalist Afgan M...See More
Posted on: 31 May 2017
NGO’s appeal to the Government of G
The organizations, signing below the present statement, are concerned regarding the process of extradition of Mustafa Emre Chabuk to Turkey, initi...See More
Posted on: 29 Apr 2017
“No to Phobia” on Zakaria Kutsnashv
Member organizations of the civil society platform No to Phobia would like to respond to the discriminatory statement of the Member of the Parliamen...See More
Posted on: 26 Apr 2017
“No to Phobia” statement on the att
Member organizations of the civil society platform No to Phobia would like to respond to the activities of the State Agency for Religious Issues ...See More
Posted on: 10 Apr 2017
Opinion about Constitutional Amendm
The below signatory organizations are concerned by the initiative presented in the Constitutional Commission for definition of marriage in the Con...See More
Posted on: 22 Mar 2017
Travel grants for participation in
The Media Development Foundation with the support of German Marshal Fund providing travel grants for participation in "Lviv Media Forum 2017” – ...See More
Posted on: 05 Mar 2017
Georgian NGOs’ address to the Europ
To: the Honorable András Sajó President of 4th section of European Court of Human Rights Georgian NGOs’ address to the European Court of Huma...See More
Posted on: 03 Mar 2017
NGOs : The decision made by the Sup
We are deeply concerned by the decision, made on March 2 by the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Georgia, stating that the owner of Rustavi 2 s...See More
Posted on: 13 Feb 2017
Statement of Media Development Foun
On Sunday, February 12, Rustavi 2’s weekly program P.S. covered a story about poor condition of public toilets installed by the Tbilisi City Hall,...See More
Posted on: 07 Feb 2017
“No to phobia” statement regarding
We, member organizations of the "No to phobia” platform, would like to respond to the nomination of the MP Manana Kobakhidze, whose several recent s...See More
Posted on: 02 Feb 2017
Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia
Today European Union once again recognized the historical aspiration of Georgian people to be part of Europe and reached an agreement on visa libera...See More
Posted on: 24 Jan 2017
Appeal of the No to Phobia Civil Pl
We would like to express our concern over the fact that on January 17, 2017 First Channel of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) dedicated its airti...See More
Posted on: 23 Jan 2017
Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia
The Georgian Parliament has launched discussions on amending the Constitution. Non-governmental organizations, including members of the Coalition fo...See More
Posted on: 12 Jan 2017
“Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgi
"Coalition for Euro-Atlantic Georgia” responds to the information made public on January 11, 2017, regarding Georgian government’s decision to agree...See More
Posted on: 12 Jan 2017
The statement of nongovernmental or
We, the undersigned nongovernmental organizations, condemn the incident that occurred in the village of Duisi in the municipality of Akhmeta on Janu...See More
Posted on: 25 Nov 2016
The statement of the Coalition for
The newly elected Parliament is currently deliberating on the formation of the Group of Trust of the Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee. T...See More
Posted on: 09 Oct 2016
Statement of MDF on Interference in
On October 8-9, during the process of coverage of elections, two more incidents of hindering professional journalistic activities took place in Kuta...See More
Posted on: 08 Oct 2016
Statement of Media Development Foun
On 8 October, during the parliamentary elections, several representatives of media outlets were prevented from performing their job. In particular: ...See More
Posted on: 04 Oct 2016
Statement by Media Development Foun
On October 3, 2016, the Media Development Foundation (MDF) released a report Pre-election Media Environment, which among other issues also reviews e...See More
Posted on: 26 Sep 2016
Address of the Civil Platform “No t
We, the members of the platform "No To Phobia” are addressing the Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission of Georgia regarding the political u...See More
Posted on: 17 Sep 2016
Statement of Non-Governmental Organ
We, the signatory organizations, once again, express our concern due to physical violence directed towards political opponents and call on law en...See More
Posted on: 08 Sep 2016
The Georgian Public Broadcaster’s e
The Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) plans to conduct exit polls on the election day together with three private TV companies – Imedi, GDS and Ma...See More
Posted on: 06 Sep 2016
Statement of the Civil Platform “No
We, the signatory non-governmental organizations express our concern regarding a August 23, 2016 racist statement that Mr. Zaza Mamaladze, the Sabur...See More
Posted on: 09 Aug 2016
Statement of the Platform “No to Ph
The signatory non-governmental organizations express a strong discontent with the request of appointing a referendum on a human rights issue provi...See More
Posted on: 23 Jun 2016
Open letter of Georgian Civil Socie
Returning Georgia to the European family of nations is a historic mission for our generation. Completing Georgia’s integration into Euro-Atlantic In...See More
Posted on: 23 Jun 2016
MDF's response to Newspress
On 23 June, the news agency "Newspress” in response of MDF’s report on "Practice of allocating budgetary resources among media for the release of in...See More
Posted on: 20 Jun 2016
NGO’s joint statement
We, the undersigned organizations intend to provide comments on the information reported by the media regarding the attack on broadcasting company R...See More
Posted on: 19 Jun 2016
MDF’s Appeal to the Georgian PM and
The Media Development Foundation (MDF) expresses its deep concern over the incident that took place in the Tbilisi international airport in the earl...See More
Posted on: 14 Jun 2016
Statement regarding the case of the
On June 10, the Tbilisi Court of Appeals upheld the judgment of the Tbilisi City Court in the case of the Rustavi 2 TV station. By the decision of ...See More
Posted on: 01 Jun 2016
NGOs: Investigation of Kortskheli i
We the undersigned organizations consider the investigation of the incident in Kortskheli as ineffective and call on the Ministry of Internal Affair...See More
Posted on: 23 May 2016
Non-Governmental Organizations’ Sta
We, the signatory organizations, respond to the rising homophobic violence before and after May 17, 2016 and we urge the state to take immediate ...See More
Posted on: 22 May 2016
NGOs’ statement regarding the physi
We express extreme concern regarding the violent incident that occurred in village Kortskheli during the local by-election, when the UNM leaders G...See More
Posted on: 30 Mar 2016
CSOs' address to the President of E
Hon. Mr. Joseph Daul President of European People’s Party Dear Mr. President, We, the group of civil society representatives of Georgi...See More
Posted on: 28 Mar 2016
MDF statement concerning the action
On 25 March, speaking live on Pirveli TV company’s program "Daily News by Inga Grigolia,” MP from the Georgian Dream ruling party, Davit Lortkipan...See More
Posted on: 11 Mar 2016
MDF calls upon IPN and other media
On March 11, the secret video recordings depicting the private life of one of the politician was disseminated through the socia...See More
Posted on: 13 Feb 2016
Response of NGOs comprising the “No
We, the organizations comprising the "No to Phobia!” platform, are responding to the statements made by Tamar Sanikidze, Minister of Education an...See More
Posted on: 04 Feb 2016
Statement of NGOs on TV company Mae
On February 2nd shares were reallocated for the television company Maestro; according to the Georgian Public Registry partners Giorgi Gachechiladze ...See More
Posted on: 03 Feb 2016
Statement of the “No to Phobia!” ci
The "No to Phobia!” civil platform expresses an extremely negative attitude to the draft law initiated in the Parliament of Georgia which envisages ...See More
Posted on: 23 Jan 2016
The statement of the “No to Phobia!
We, non-governmental organizations comprising the "No to Phobia!” civil platform, condemn the violent action and Armenophobic attitudes displayed ...See More
Posted on: 06 Dec 2015
Conflict of Interest in Judicial Ap
The High Council of Justice has commenced the process of judicial appointments to fill 61 vacant positions in the general courts of Georgia. Under ...See More
Posted on: 06 Nov 2015
Statement regarding the Tbilisi Cit
On Thursday, November 5, Judge Tamaz Urtmelidze of the Tbilisi City Court issued a ruling to secure the enforcement of the decision regarding the ca...See More
Posted on: 27 Oct 2015
Statement of NGOs comprising the “N
On October 23, 2015, after a two-year-long review of the case, the Tbilisi City Court acquitted a clergyman, Father Iotam (Irakli Basilaia), and sev...See More
Posted on: 23 Oct 2015
Statement of NGOs Regarding Recent
We, the signatory organizations, express our grave concern about the recent developments that are directed against the country’s democratic developm...See More
Posted on: 23 Oct 2015
Address to the National Communicati
Since 19 October, media union Obiektivi daily airs the footage of torture discovered in Samegrelo. Clearly, denouncing violence and crime is a pub...See More
Posted on: 20 Oct 2015
Statement on the October 19th attac
The signatory non-governmental organizations condemn the targeted attacks carried out on October 19thon five regional offices of the opposition part...See More
Posted on: 17 Oct 2015
NGOs address International Communit
We are addressing representatives of the diplomatic corpus accredited in Georgia and the relevant representatives of the EU, OSCE, Council of Euro...See More
Posted on: 06 Oct 2015
On the detention and two-month pre-
We respond to the arrest of participants of the rally in support of Rustavi 2 TV near the building of Parliament of Georgia as a result of assault o...See More
Posted on: 02 Oct 2015
Assessemnt of recent developments s
It is extremely disturbing to witness the developments that have unfolded in the recent months around Rustavi 2 – a media outlet with the highest ra...See More
Posted on: 21 Sep 2015
Statement regarding recent developm
We, the signatory non-governmental organizations, give a strictly negative assessment to the statements made by political officials about the Consti...See More
Posted on: 08 Sep 2015
Statement by the “No to Phobia!” Ci
This statement is in response to the document published on the official website of the Khulo Municipality – "Report by the "Georgian Dream – Democ...See More
Posted on: 31 Aug 2015
MDF’s Statement on Imedi TV decisio
Ahead of the forthcoming 2016 parliamentary elections, the developments in Georgian media question the issue of pluralism in media and represent a...See More
Posted on: 07 Aug 2015
Statement of NGOs regarding the sei
The signatory Non-governmental organizations express concern about current developments regarding the Rustavi 2 TV company’s ownership and a decisio...See More
Posted on: 31 Jul 2015
Appeal of Women’s Movement and Non-
A report aired on Imedis Kvira program of Imedi TV on 26 July triggered hot discussions lately. The report was about a fact of domestic violence a...See More
Posted on: 31 Jul 2015
A joint statement of NGOs regarding
We, the signatory organizations, express concern about the decision of the Ministry of Corrections and Probation with regard to Police Colonel Irakl...See More
Posted on: 14 Jul 2015
Joint Statement of Non-governmental
On the 10th of July 2015, near the village of Orchosani and the territory of Tsitelubani-Khurvaleti, Russian occupation forces shifted the border ...See More
Posted on: 13 Jul 2015
NGOs call on government to undertak
Excessive concentration of power in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has always been subject to criticism. A comprehensive reform and depoliti...See More
Posted on: 09 Jul 2015
MDF response to the press service o
On July 8, the Press Service of the Government Administration released a statement in response to the report prepared by Media Development Foundati...See More
Posted on: 08 Jul 2015
NGOs address to Head of the Europea
The appeal of Georgian Non-governmental Organizations to Ambassador Janos Herman, Head of the European Delegation to Georgia: "We are addressin...See More
Posted on: 23 Apr 2015
NGOs respond to the events in the G
We, the signatory organizations, respond to the events that took place in Gurjaani in the recent days, denounce the instances of clear disrespect fo...See More
Posted on: 17 Apr 2015
Joint Statement of NGOs and Media O
The Parliament of Georgia is planning to adopt with first reading a draft of Amendments to the Criminal Code of Georgia, prepared by the Ministry of...See More
Posted on: 16 Apr 2015
Appeal to the Board of Trustees and
Coverage of religious rituals by Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) still remains problematic. On April 12, 2015, the GPB provided live transmission...See More
Posted on: 19 Mar 2015
The assessment of the Strategy for
LEPL State Agency for Religious Issues (hereinafter "the Agency”), which was created by the Government of Georgia to carry out information-gatheri...See More
Posted on: 18 Mar 2015
A joint statement of NGOs regarding
We, the signatory organizations, condemn the attacks on the offices of the United National Movement and N(N)LE Center for Freedom and Support and th...See More
Posted on: 17 Mar 2015
A statement of NGOs regarding the i
The signatory organizations respond with concern to the criminal prosecution of the former Mayor of Tbilisi, Gigi Ugulava, and the decisions of the ...See More
Posted on: 06 Mar 2015
Statement of Member Organizations o
We would like to respond to comments made in the program Qronika on Imedi TV channel by the Minister of Justice, Thea Tsulukiani, on February 18, ...See More
Posted on: 04 Mar 2015
Statement of Media Development Foun
Media Development Foundation (MDF) condemns the fact of physical assault against Irakli Gedenidze, photo correspondent of the news agency "InterPr...See More
Posted on: 02 Feb 2015
Joint statement of civil society re
Civil Sector Under Government Pressure in Georgia – A Joint Statement of Georgian Civil Society Organisations. We are concerned by the pressure non...See More
Posted on: 26 Jan 2015
Joint statement of civil society an
We, the undersigned NGOs, believe that Article 2391 of the amendment proposed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (hereinafter, MIA) to the Crimin...See More
Posted on: 10 Jan 2015
Civil Platform “No to Phobia!” memb
Several days ago, messages containing threats of physical annihilation of members of NGO Identoba, and its former executive director, Irakli Vacha...See More
Posted on: 09 Jan 2015
Civil Platform “NoToPhobia!” Statem
Members of platform "NoToPhobia!” are concerned by the threats made against non-governmental organisation Identoba, and its representative, Irakli...See More
Posted on: 07 Jan 2015
Attack on Charlie Hebdo is a terror
Media Development Foundation (MDF)is deeply concerned about the barbaric attack carried out against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris toda...See More
Posted on: 18 Dec 2014
CSOs react to illegal detention of
On 12 December 2014,the Department of Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia detained the Director of Institute forDev...See More
Posted on: 15 Dec 2014
MDF, TDI and GDI Demand Investigati
The Media Development Foundation (MDF), the Tolerance and Diversity Institute (TDI) and the Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) express our concern...See More
Posted on: 03 Dec 2014
NGOs and religious organizations d
On December 2, the non-governmental organizations and religious associations addressed the Georgian parliament with a Petition requesting to stud...See More
Posted on: 06 Nov 2014
Statement in response to Interpress
The news agency "Interpressnews" issued a statement in response to the preliminary findings of survey presented by Media Development Foundation (...See More
Posted on: 29 Oct 2014
The petition of civil platform “No
We would like to respond to the interview given by the Deputy State Minister of Georgia on Diaspora Issues to the Kviris Palitra newspaper on Octobe...See More
Posted on: 27 Oct 2014
Address of Member organizations of
We, the nongovernmental organizations united under the civil platform No to Phobia! believe that an alarming tendency of late ofincreased violence ...See More
Posted on: 23 Oct 2014
Joint statement of NGOs concerning
Non-governmental organizations express deep concern about the recent cases of the violation of the rights of Adjarian Muslims and about the repres...See More
Posted on: 21 Oct 2014
A joint statement of Georgian Democ
We would like to respond to the events that developed on October 19, 2014, near the house of the Prime Minister of Georgia at the time of the peacef...See More
Posted on: 20 Oct 2014
A joint statement of Georgian Democ
We would like to respond to the statement made on October 17, 2014, by the Director General of the Rustavi 2 TV station, Nika Gvaramia, on his Faceb...See More
Posted on: 02 Oct 2014
A joint statement of Georgian Democ
On September 30, 2014, youth association Free Generation carried out an attack on the office of NGO Free Zone as a result of which individual member...See More
Posted on: 24 Sep 2014
Joint Statement on the facts of res
The undersigned organizations express our concern about the revealed facts of intolerance regarding the opening of boarding school for Muslim studen...See More
Posted on: 16 Sep 2014
Statement of the "No to Phobia!" Ci
We would like to respond to the report aired on September 14 by the program P.S. of Rustavi 2 TV about the vandal act occurred in Kobuleti on Septem...See More
Posted on: 07 Sep 2014
MDF Statement on the Restriction of
The Media Development Foundation(MDF) expresses concern over an incident that took place at around 01:00 on 7 September,in which the police prohibit...See More
Posted on: 08 Aug 2014
Joint Statement of NGOs on a discri
On August 6, the main news program of Georgian Public Broadcaster, Moambe, reported a fatal incident caused by the negligence of parents, which took...See More
Posted on: 04 Aug 2014
Statement of the "No to the Phobia!
We would like to respond to the incidents that occurred during the latest matches of Chikhura FC, which have damaged not just Georgian sport, but al...See More
Posted on: 31 Jul 2014
NGOs respond to the indictment of t
NGOs are responding to the indictment of the former President of Georgia by the Chief Prosecutor's Office. Launching of criminal proceedings against...See More
Posted on: 29 Jul 2014
Statement on covering Mariam Kochal
We would like to respond to speculative coverage of the high-profile murder case of Mariam Kochaladze through media, which periodically emerges outl...See More
Posted on: 22 Jul 2014
Statement of Non-Governmental Organ
2 July, 2014 During last two days, the group of non-governmental organizations has been examining the incident that took place at the Armenia...See More
Posted on: 14 Jul 2014
Joint Statement of Non-governmental
We would like to react to a fragment from the TV program "Bina -18," aired by GDS TV Studio on July 9, which contained humiliating visualization of ...See More
Posted on: 09 Jun 2014
Statement of MDF re: Pressure again
We would like to express our concern over the fact of pressure exerted against Jaba Ananidze, TV-Channel 25 journalist from the side of Medea Vasad...See More
Posted on: 06 Jun 2014
A statement of NGOs regarding the H
We, the signatory organizations, are responding to the events that developed in connection with the International Hope Festival and believe that int...See More
Posted on: 28 May 2014
A joint statement of NGOs Georgian
We express deep concern about the attack on Zurab Chiaberashvili and Nodar Ladaria that took place on May 27 and call on the authorities to investig...See More
Posted on: 12 May 2014
Statement Regarding Homophobic Asse
We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, express our concern about homophobic assessments which David Darakhvelidze, the Minister of Inte...See More
Posted on: 05 May 2014
Joint Statement of the Council of R
In February 2014 the government of Georgia established the State Agency of Religious Issues. We consider that the mandate of the newly established A...See More
Posted on: 01 May 2014
Joint statement by MDF, GDI and TDI
We want to express our concern regarding a report on the arrest of an Iraqi citizen suspected of sexual offence, which was aired in the Moambe news ...See More
Posted on: 29 Apr 2014
Joint Statement about the State Age
In February 2014 the government of Georgia established the State Agency of Religious Issues. We consider that the mandate of the newly established A...See More
Posted on: 15 Apr 2014
Civil Society and Religious Organiz
We, the signatories to this statement express our dissatisfaction and criticism towards the Draft Law On The Elimination Of All forms of Discriminat...See More
Posted on: 04 Apr 2014
A statement of NGOs regarding the c
We, non-governmental organizations, express concern regarding the information disseminated by the family and lawyer of Shalva Tatukhashvili about hi...See More
Posted on: 27 Mar 2014
Revenue Service involves Court, see
The audit department of theRevenue Servicecontinues its excessive check of TV MR GE, the licensed representative ofNielsenTelevision Audience Measur...See More
Posted on: 24 Mar 2014
Joint Statement on Imedi TV’s Repor
We express our concern over a report about Georgia's Samtskhe-Javakheti Region, which was aired on Panorama program of Imedi TV company on 23 Mar...See More
Posted on: 18 Mar 2014
Revenue Service has started fining
The audit department of theRevenue Service(a legal entity of public law operating under theMinistry of Finance of Georgia)continues its inventory ch...See More
Posted on: 08 Mar 2014
Ministry of Finance should not limi
At the end of February, the audit department of theRevenue Service(a legal entity of public law operating under theMinistry of Finance of Georgia)la...See More
Posted on: 27 Jan 2014
NGOs’ joint statement on GPB
On January 23 the Parliament of Georgia voted, for the second time, to select the candidates of the Georgian Public Broadcaster's (GPB) Board of Tru...See More
Posted on: 27 Jan 2014
Statement by Georgian NGOs and Civi
We, the non-governmental organizations and the representativesof the civil society of Georgia are deeply concerned with the violence against the fre...See More
Posted on: 24 Jan 2014
Joint statement of non-governmental
Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI), Transparency International – Georgia (TI) and Media Development Foundation (MDF) express their grave concern ov...See More
Posted on: 17 Jan 2014
Joint Statement of NGOs
Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI), Transparecy International (TI), Georgian Young Lawyers` Association (GYLA), Media Development Foundation (MDF),...See More
Posted on: 27 Dec 2013
A joint statement of MDF and GDI re
December 27, 2013 Media Development Foundation (MDF) and Georgian Democracy Initiative (GDI) express their concern regarding the Board staf...See More
Posted on: 20 Dec 2013
MDF Appeals International Organizat
20 December, 2013 We would like to express our concern regarding an incident that took place at the Borispol airport, Kiev on December 20,...See More
Posted on: 16 Nov 2013
The Joint Statement of CSOs on the
The state obligation to ensure individuals' right to adequate housing is often violated in Georgia. The state policy to solve the extreme form of po...See More
Posted on: 07 Nov 2013
A joint statement of civil society
We, signatories to his statement, once again express our negative attitude to the draft law initiated in the Parliament of Georgia which imposes adm...See More
Posted on: 04 Nov 2013
Joint Statement on Blasphemy Bill
The below signatory civil society organizations disapprove of the legal draft submitted to the Parliament that, if passed, would sanction statements...See More
Posted on: 02 Nov 2013
Civil society organizations call on
We, signatories to this statement, express our negative attitude to the legislative initiative on imposing administrative liability for insulting re...See More
Posted on: 05 Sep 2013
Joint Statement on GPB
GPB should provide main platform for political debates and overcome partisan games 5 September, 2013 Less than two months ahead the presiden...See More
Posted on: 29 Aug 2013
Rights of Muslim population grossly
On August 26, 2013, in the village of Chela of Adigeni Municipality the Customs Department of the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Geor...See More
Posted on: 03 Aug 2013
MDF regarding the TV story aired by
MDF statement regarding the TV story aired by "Qronika" on August 1 Media Development Foundation, MDF expresses its concern reg...See More
Posted on: 27 Jul 2013
MDF Response to Channel 9
Media Development Foundation, MDF discussed the letter of Channel 9 in which the leadership of the channel’s news service expressed its disagreement w...See More
Posted on: 29 Jun 2013
A joint statement of NGOs regarding
NGOs make a joint statement about the events that took place yesterday in the village of Samtatskaro and call on the authorities to take effective s...See More
Posted on: 19 Jun 2013
A joint statement of NGOs
(Regarding the draft Conclusion prepared by the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration of the Parliament of Georgia about the e...See More
Posted on: 16 Jun 2013
Joint statement of GDI and MDF abou
We would like to once again turn the public’s attention to the xenophobic statements and assessments that have assumed a dangerous scale in Georgia’...See More
Posted on: 14 Jun 2013
A joint statement of Georgian Democ
No to xenophobia (Eradicating ethnic, religious, sexist and homo/transphobic rhetoric in politics and making the Georgian po...See More
Posted on: 17 May 2013
Statement of the Media Development
Media Development Foundation, MDF once again, calls on media outlets to provide the coverage of May 17 rally against homophobia in accordance with t...See More
Posted on: 16 May 2013
Statement of the Media Development
May 17 is the International Day against Homophobia and Transophobia. The citizens of many countries across the world organize rallies protesting again...See More
Posted on: 13 May 2013
The Statement of the Media Developm
MDF addresses the recent alarming trend of media outlets reproducing the unverified information initially disseminated in social networks. The footage...See More
Posted on: 04 May 2013
MDF and ALPE Foundation joint state
May 4, 2013 We would like to express our strong protest regarding the growing number of immoral facts in social media. The video footage re...See More
Posted on: 27 Mar 2013
A Joint Statement by Media Developm
The Media Development Foundation (MDF) and Alpe Foundation express concern about a report aired on 15:00, 18:00 and 21:00 news programs of Rustav...See More
Posted on: 18 Mar 2013
A dangerous tendency in the pubic s
The Media Development Foundation, MDF is concerned about frequent instances of reporting personal information through media outlets. Especially ...See More
Posted on: 15 Mar 2013
MDF statement regarding the fact of
We believe, that public attention should be focused on the very threatening precedents observed in Georgian media resources concerning the fact...See More
Posted on: 15 Jan 2013
Media Development Foundation, MDF s
Media Development Foundation, MDF is concerned by the fact of releasing and covering in media on January 14 of video materials concerning crimina...See More
Posted on: 23 Nov 2012
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
Media Development Foundation, MDF expresses its concern over the statements regarding media, made by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili at the press c...See More
Posted on: 03 Oct 2012
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
Media Development Foundation, MDF condemns promotion of violence in any forms by media and remarks against such media activities that may promote vi...See More
Posted on: 28 Sep 2012
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
During last days Georgian televisions are permanently airing some of the materials downloaded from new media means in the form of audio and video reco...See More
Posted on: 19 Sep 2012
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
Media Development Foundation, MDF joins Georgian society and expresses concern regarding the terrible facts revealed within the penitentiary system, r...See More
Posted on: 23 Jul 2012
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
Media Development Foundation, MDF expresses its concern for the fact of the robbery in the studio "Monitori”. We believe that the existence of the stu...See More
Posted on: 25 Apr 2012
Comments On the talk show „100 C”
On April 20, 2012 – Friday the talk show „100 C” was broadcasted on TV company Imedi. The main topic of the show was problems of teenagers, accordin...See More
Posted on: 29 Jun 2011
Media Development Foundation, MDF S
Media Development Foundation, MDF files a complaint to self-regulatory bodies of TV companies Imedi and Georgian Public Broadcasting, GPB on...See More
Posted on: 23 Oct 2010
Media Development Foundation, MDF a
Media Development Foundation expresses the worry about the incident happened at the territory of "Lilo” fair on October 21 where the members of the ...See More
Posted on: 14 Mar 2010
MDF announcement on simulated news
The so called "Special coverage” aired on the TV company "Imedi” on March 13, 2010 presenting modeled eventual Russian Federation military intervent...See More
Posted on: 14 Sep 2009
Competition for IDP youths
Media Development Foundation, MDF announces competition of essays and drawings on the theme - "Life after war”. The opportunity to participate in th...See More
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