Lawyer of Human Rights Center Met Gurjaani Public School Pupils

Lela Khechoshvili, Kakheti

Lawyer of Human Rights Center’s Gurjaani office Lia Khuroshvili held meeting with the pupils of the Gurjaani public school # 1. She met pupils of the 10th and 9th grade and spoke about gender issues, role of the Ombudsman’s office. The lawyer of Human Rights Center was invited to the meeting by the Civic Education Club.

School teacher Marika Shankulashvili said a project is implemented in the ninth grade with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science, which aims to promote legal culture among youth and cooperation between teacher and police officer.

“In the frame of this project, we wanted to organize a meeting about the work of the Public Defender’s office. Lia Khuroshvili is a qualified lawyer and we invited her to conduct the lesson. She thoroughly explained children the gender issues, gender equality and informed them about the services provided by the ombudsman’s office. She also informed the children about the state of human rights in Kakheti region,” Marika Shankulashvili said.

Lawyer Lia Khuroshvili of Human Rights Center said it is important that school children received similar information proactively.

“Human Rights Center is implementing a project “Support to the defense of rights of women, religious and ethnic minorities in the regions of Georgia”, which aims to advocate the cases of gender based discrimination. Very often the problems originate from lack of information; that’s why it is important to meet and speak with undergraduate school children about these problems,” Lia Khuroshvili said.