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Open Day for Socially Indigent Population at Human Rights House Tbilisi

August 26, 2013
Tinatin Japaridze

Since June 1, 2013 free legal aid center has been functioning at Human Rights House Tbilisi; lawyers of HRHT member organizations Article 42 of the Constitution and Human Rights Center provide indigent population of Georgia, IDPs, people with disabilities, retired people, prisoners and beneficiaries of other closed institutions with free legal aid.

In the frame of the project, Open Day was organized at Human Rights House Tbilisi. Project beneficiaries – citizens with different problems – could discuss their cases with the lawyers, ask them questions and get legal consultation. 

Project coordinator and HRHT Board chairman Aleko Tskitishvili said that meeting with project beneficiaries exposed two main problems of indigent population: “First - homeless people have problem of shelter, they temporarily shelter different buildings/facilities; and second- problem of status: citizens claim that they meet criteria worked out for the status but could not get it.”

Margarita Manukyan: “I watched the advertisement on Public Broadcaster and learned about the Open Day from there. I am impoverished person but do not have status of indigent citizen. I have come here to find out how I can get social aid.”

When speaking with lawyers, citizens mostly complained about civil and administrative cases.

Several open days are planned in the frame of the project. Press-conferences on resonant cases and cases of particular public interest will be held systematically. Legal education center for the students of law faculty was launched and young people get additional master-classes there.

The project duration is 12 months. Citizens, seeking free legal aid, can call hotline: for criminal cases call 2 14 80 94 and for civil and administrative cases - 2 18 04 71.

All news about the project and information about planned events will be published on the websites: www.humanrights.ge ;  www.hridc.tv; www.article42.blogspot.com. 

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