On July 9, 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia submitted an alternative report to the United Nations for the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Georgia. The alternative report conc ...

On June 25, 2020, Nino Lomjaria, Public Defender of Georgia, presented a report on the situation of human rights in 2019 to the Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration of the Parliament of Geo ...

On June 3, 2020, for the first time, the Public Defender of Georgia submitted an alternative report on the situation of enforcement of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and the Unite ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has published a list of issues relating to the initial report submitted by Georgia. In the document the Committee outlines the key issues re ...

On May 21, 2020, the Public Defender of Georgia submitted opinions to the Parliament of Georgia relating to the draft amendments to the Law of Georgia on Public Health and the Criminal Procedure Code ...

The Public Defender of Georgia, as a constitutional body oversighting the protection of human rights in the country, has issued a special address to the State and people of Georgia. Although additiona ...

The report refers to insufficient activities aimed at rehabilitation and resocialization of prisoners and lack of contact with the outside world, as well as shortcomings in medical services, preventiv ...

Lara Jamarauli, Chief Specialist at the Analytical Department of the Office of the Public Defender, has been invited by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to work for six ...

The International Human Rights Day is marked on December 10. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, which laid the foundation for m ...

Public Defender Nino Lomjaria has invited UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment David Boyd to Georgia. In the letter of invitation, the Public Defender asks the Special Rapporteur ...

On 22 October 2019, information and video footage showing beating and ill-treatment of prisoners in the Tskhinvali temporary detention isolator were disseminated via the media and social media. Unfort ...