On April 3rd, non-governmental organizations which were standing for the campaign “This Affects You, they are still listening” held a protest action in front of the Parliament in Kutaisi. Regional representatives of the Center for Development and Democracy were actively involved in the protest action and expressed their position about the issue!
Project Name: The project "New Initiative for Peaceful Future"
Project is implemented by: support of Confidence Building Early Response Mechanism (COBERM) – a joint EU/UNDP initiative
Project duration: April – December 2014
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Campaign participants "It Affects You Too, They are still listening" start the demonstration "1 hour without listening", which, is against secret eavesdropping and illegal wiretapping before the Parliament prior adoption of legislative package. The demonstration starts on Friday, 13: 00 am to 14:00 pm and aims the mobile phones off of.
On March 10, the hotel "Radisson" "Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy" (NIMD), "the International Election Fund" (IFES) and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE / ODIHR) organized a roundtable - Women's Participation in Political Life was held.
The campaign about illegal eavesdropping “This affects you” is starting. The campaign is aimed to protect personal rights and immunity. Renewed slogan for the campaign is “This affects you! They are still listening!”
On March 4th, in the hotel "Courtyard Marriott" was held a meeting with European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy - Mr. Stefan Fule and member of the National Platform of NGOs. The meeting was attended by Executive director of the Center for Development and Democracy Ketevan Chachava.
The project about database elimination of identification duplication was held On February 27th, in the hotel "Holiday Inn". The goal of the project is to set out the exact voter data for 2014 local government elections which can provide an increase confidence in the electoral lists.
The Conference “2013 presidential elections –received experience and future steps” was held on February 19th, in the hotel "Radisson Blue Iveria. Conference was follow up in the discussion, which was held on February 13th, and was based on discussion by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
The aim of project was to share the gained experience during the 2013 presidential election and planning future steps for upcoming local elections to ensure full compliance with European and international standards.
On February 15th was organized a meeting about volunteering forum and exhibition by Helping Hand in the hotel “Cortyard Marriot”. On the meeting was invited around 40 organizations including the Center for Development and Democracy.
