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EWMI Grantee Facilitates Greater Collaboration on Sustainable Energy Issues

 

Hydro-power will be an important component to developing a sustainable domestic energy supply in Georgia. However, several hydro-power plant (HPP) construction contracts were signed without the input of the communities those HPPs would affect or an assessment of their environmental impacts. To ensure a more participatory process that accounts for community and environmental concerns, EWMI grantee, ...

 

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EWMI Encourages Greater Leadership for Women Jurists in Georgia

 

On April 30, 2013, Deputy Chief of Mission Bridget Brink joined Supreme Court Chairman Konstantine Kublashvili and Minister of Justice Tea Tsulukiani to open a conference, organized by EWMI, entitled “Gender in the Court: Working Toward a More Inclusive Court System.” The conference aimed to foster the development of a court system that...

 

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EWMI Improves Georgian Law School Libraries

 

On April 22-26, EWMI’s Judicial Independence and Legal Empowerment Project (JILEP) organized workshops at four Georgian law school libraries in connection with its “Information Services Development Program,” launched in November 2012, with the goal of developing a core set of functional law libraries...

 

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Court Monitoring Programs Highlight Shortcomings in Criminal and Administrative Court Proceedings

 

EWMI grantees, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) and Transparency International Georgia (TI) presented the findings of their most recent court monitoring efforts on April 2, 2013.  In GYLA’s case, their findings covered the period July to December 2012; TI’s reporting covered the period June to October 2012...

 

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EWMI Hosts Court Optimization Conference

 

The International Conference on Optimization of Court Performance and Resource Allocation gathered nearly 140 participants from across Romania, several European countries, and the United States on 11 March 2013 at the National Institute of Statistics in Bucharest, Romania. The conference celebrated the culmination...

 

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