Presentation of Report of Human Rights Center

Presentation of Report of Human Rights Center – State of Women and Juvenile Prisoners in Georgia

Tomorrow, at 13:00 pm, in the conference hall of National Library of Georgia, Human Rights Center will hold presentation – State of Women and Juvenile Prisoners in Georgia.

Human Rights Center prepared report within the framework of the project – Monitoring State of Women and Juvenile Prisoners in Georgia. The project was implemented by financial support of Embassy of Bulgaria in partnership with Office of Public Defender of Georgia. 

Within the frameworks of the project, based on the special warrants issued by the Public Defender of Georgia, with the participation of representatives from National Preventive Mechanism and Child’s Rights Center of the Public Defender’s Office (PDO), the observers of Human Rights Center conducted planned and unplanned visits to female correctional facility N5 in Rustavi, juvenile rehabilitation facility N11 in Tbilisi and to juvenile department of prison N8 in Gldani.

As discovered by the monitoring, the significant problems of female correctional facility N5 are: humiliating procedure of full examination, nonexistence of conjugal visits, lack of hygiene products, late/inadequate treatment for women prisoners, problems of communication with foreign women prisoners, lack of information about their rights, malfunctioning of phone booth cards and so on.

Significant problems discovered in the juvenile facility are: privileges among juvenile prisoners, frequent cases of repeated offences, social isolation of some category of juvenile convicts, lack of psychologists, the need of conducting trainings for teachers and nonexistence of distance learning programs.

The representative of Embassy of Bulgaria and head of Prevention and Monitoring Department of Office of Public Defender, Nika Kvaratskhelia will participate in the presentation.

The printed versions of the report will be passed to the National Library and disseminated at the presentation, electronic version will be published at Human Rights Center’s website www.humanrights.ge.

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