Tamar Oniani has served as the Director of the Human Rights Program at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) since 2023 and, since 2022, as the Deputy Chair and a member of GYLA’s Board. She is simultaneously pursuing the Master of Science in International Human Rights Law at the Oxford University with full scholarship support. Tamar also teaches as an invited lecturer at several universities.

Since 2021, she led GYLA’s international litigation team, and she originally joined the organization in 2018 as a strategic litigation lawyer. In that role, Tamar represented and supervised strategic human rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights, involving freedom of assembly and expression, prohibition of torture, and violations occurring in the occupied territories and border-adjacent regions, among others.

Tamar has served as the lead researcher on more than twenty legal studies, is the co-author of several legal manuals, and the author and co-author of articles (including publications in peer-reviewed journals), blogs, and op-eds. She is a Council of Europe–certified trainer in human rights law. As an expert, she has cooperated with various local and international organizations.

Tamar Oniani is an alumna of the John Smith Trust Fellowship Programme (2023–24) and the EU’s Sakharov Fellowship Programme for Human Rights Defenders (2022). Through different scholarships, she has participated in academic programs at the University of Liverpool (Liverpool, UK), Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich, Germany), and the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany).