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Address to the Government with Regard to the Elaboration of Human Rights Protection National Strategy

February 10, 2014
 
We, big part of human rights organizations response to the activities of the commission working on the human rights protection national strategy and regret that we are not part of the process. The initiative group even did not invite us to the discussions – for example, at February 8 discussion at the Sheraton Metekhi Palace.

We have learned from the news agencies that elaboration of the Human Rights Protection National Strategy and Action Plans has almost finished and they will be approved by the end of February.

In general, we share the opinion of the Government of Georgia and believe that it is urgently important to elaborate Human Rights Protection National Strategy and Action Plan. However, criteria for the selection of the nongovernmental organizations, who work on such significant documents or participate in the process, are unclear for us. 

We believe it is inadmissible to exclude those organizations from the working process, which declared principle positions in the unbearable conditions in the penitentiary system during past years, which protested torture of people, persecution on political grounds, violation of the rights to property, election, labor, assembly and manifestation as well as other fundamental rights. 

Consequently, we are afraid that significant topics, like legal and psycho-social rehabilitation of the victims of torture, establishment of the Commission for Identification of the Shortcomings of Judicial System and restoration of justice; revision of the cases on political prisoners and their rehabilitation, further improvement of the labor law, institutional development of the labor market, etc, will remain beyond the Strategy and the Action Plan.
 
We hope the Government of Georgia will use the remaining time to provide us with the information about its strategic plans and consider our positions on significant questions. 

Human Rights Center
Public Attorney
Healthy World
Georgian Confederation of Trade Unions
Human Rights Priority
Multinational Georgia
Youth for Justice
Media Institute 

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