Posted on: 09 Oct 2024

The Constitutional Court of Georgia

The decision of the Constitutional Court not to suspend Russian Law lacks legal justification, does not take into account the legal conclusions of l...See More

Posted on: 15 Aug 2024

Media and Information Literacy Hack

This year, at DataFest Tbilisi 2024, we will host TruthTechThon, a media and information literacy hackathon. The Media Development Foundation (MDF)...See More

Posted on: 17 Jul 2024

THE LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST THE “RUSSI

121 Georgian non-governmental and media organizations continue their legal battle against the "Russian law”, for which we will appeal to the Constit...See More

Posted on: 16 Jul 2024

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: 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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