According to the recommendations of healthcare agencies and organizations on the limitations for Coronavirus pandemic the Equality Movement will provide its services to LGBTQI members remotely. For psychologist and psychiatrist services, please contact our social workers: Ira Silanteva (mob 595 85 53 20, email ira.silanteva@equality.ge) and Mariam Bandzava (mob 595 57 37 13, email: mariam.bandzava@equality.ge) …

“I closed for a while and didn’t go to school. So I decided to change the school, I could not do anything else. From today’s point of view, I think Maybe I should have resisted saying everything I wanted to say, but nothing could be changed. No one would understand me and on the contrary, …

“I was feminine from my childhood which was often the motive to scorn me. I was often called by various derogatory names. I didn’t want to go to school to meet some people there. There were cases of being late in the school with high hopes that no one would meet me, ” – David Kakhaberi recalls his experience on Bullying. …

“I often became a victim of physical and mental bullying during my school years. Frequently I became the victim of physical abuse from my classmates. No one knew about my sexuality, including my classmates, but they realized I was different. There were occasions when I was bitten by a group of boys in class”, – …

“When I was preparing for this record for a few days, I thought about examples of psychological or physical bullying that I experienced. Interestingly, on an emotional level I have it all memorized. What I felt  at school … The desire not to go to school because something bad could happen. However, all this was …

On March 10, 2020, the High Council of Justice (HCOJ) nominated Nino Kadagidze to the Parliament as a candidate for the Chair position. She was one of those 10 candidates who the HCOJ nominated to Parliament for the Supreme Court without any public hearing and discussion at the end of December, 2018. The Coalition believes …

The Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary is reacting to important deficiencies of the judicial disciplinary proceedings, which have a negative effect on judicial independence and undermine public trust in the court system. Despite four waves of judicial reforms during the last few years, the system of judicial disciplinary liability does not ensure fairness, …

The Office of Public Defender of Georgia issued a recommendation to the Tbilisi State Medical University on the basis of statements made by the Equality Movement regarding the existence of homophobic and stigma-enhancing records in the textbooks of the university. The Equality Movement appealed to the Public Defender’s Office on November 2, 2018 and June …

“Bullying started in my life way back when I was a public school student. I had a strange name and it caused a great surprise of people around me. They laughed at me saying that my mother didn’t love me gave me such a name. A stranger, someone who did not know me may say …