Grigol Giorgadze
(2003)
Tbilisi
,
GEO
Fellow
Grigol Giorgadze currently works with Imedi TV. Prior to this, he was a lawyer with the Center for the Protection of Constitutional Rights in Tbilisi. He was also director of the project Patients’ Legal Clinic at the Center. For many years, Grigol worked predominantly on patients’ rights, particularly psychiatric patients’ rights.
As a PILnet International Fellow, Grigol focused his research on the issue of guardianship, a particularly problematic area of patients’ rights in Georgia. Upon returning to Georgia, Grigol continued his work with CPCR on Mental Disability Advocacy projects to further protect and advocate for the rights and wellbeing of this vulnerable sector of the population.