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Human Rights Watch Describes Human Rights Violations in Georgia
International human rights organization Human Rights Watch issued report of 2010. The big part of it concerns Georgia. It is indicated that numerous human rights violations occurred in Georgia during 2010. Report also touches the process of IDP eviction and notes that the state evicted thousands of IDPs from the temporary residence places, often leaving them homeless and without adequate compensation or accommodated them in the remote regions in inadequate conditions; here is the report covering situation in Georgia. Georgian translation belongs to Human Rights Center.
Stop Intimidation of IDPs! Statement of the Human Rights Center
The Human Rights Center condemns the forced eviction of the IDPs from the TSU students’ dormitory in Bagebi settlement, from the former building of the Custom’s Department in Orkhevi settlement, from the Kipshidze Street # 34, from the former building of execution bureau in Vazha-Pshavela Avenue 3rd MD and from other buildings of IDP settlement in Tbilisi on January 20 and 21.
Fundamental rights and freedoms are shrinking in Georgia
The new amendment to the Law on Police clearly demonstrates the undemocratic trend that Georgian legislation is moving towards. It shrinks the scope of fundamental human rights and freedoms, thus, violates the individual liberty enshrined in the Georgian Constitution.
HRHF and FIDH organise joint mission to UN ahead of Georgia’s UPR
The two independent organisations Human Rights Center in Georgia and Georgian Young Lawyers Association go today to Geneva to meet various state delegations to lobby them to raise concerns among others about freedom of expression, assembly, and the rule of law in Georgia. This is part of the independent human rights sector’s preparations for Georgia’s UPR, scheduled for the 10th session, end of January 2011.
The human rights week at the Human Right House Tbilisi
On December 3, the HRH Tbilisi and its member organizations (Article 42 of constitution, HRIDC, GCRT, Union Sapari and the Center for Human Rights and Conflicts Studies Caucasia) launched the Human Rights Week which ended on December 10, the International Day for Human Rights. Within the Week, different events were organized including workshops, documentary film screenings and discussions. The purpose of the week was to popularize and bring increased recognition to the International Human Rights Day and to raise the awareness of the Georgian students, journalists and human rights defenders in the fields of human rights.
New regulatory legislation: a threat to peace-building in Georgia
With Georgia’s ‘State Strategy on Occupied Territories: Engagement through Cooperation,’ the government has adopted new modalities for conducting activities in the occupied territories. Both Georgian civil society and international organizations have received the strategy critically, saying that the new restrictions the Georgian government has placed on their work in Abkhazia and South Ossetia will destroy the small amount of trust that has been built up between the conflicting sides.
Human right week
Human Rights House Tbilisi is organizing the Human Rights Week from December 3 to 10 dedicated to the International Day for Human Rioghts.
December 3, at 13:00 – Working meeting with the women lawyers (Article 42 of the constitution);
December 6 at 12:00 – Documentary film on ICC – “The Reckoning” (moderator: Ana Natsvlishvili, the lawyer, HRIDC);
December 7 at 12:00 – Documentary film on photo-reporters “Shooting Under Fire” (moderator: Giorgi Kupatadze, the IWPR);
December 9 at 12:00 – Documentary film on violence against women – “The Return” (moderator: Natalia Zazashvili, the psychologist, Union Sapari) ;
December 10 at 13:00 – Documentary film on juvenile offenders – “Books not Bars” (moderator: Maia Tsiramua, the psychologist, GCRT);
Please register for each event:
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Conflict affected people in Georgia
On September 29, the results of the monitoring of the investigations concerning the treatment and fate of certain missing persons during and after the armed conflict in August of 2008 was published on the web-site of the Council of Europe.
Constitutional reforms in Georgia
The constitution of Georgia has been amended twice since the Rose Revolution. In 2004, the amendment maximally satisfied the President’s ambitions and gave him near indefinite powers regarding legislative issues. In the second amendment, in 2010, more power is concentrated under the Prime Minister.