05 December 2007, 09:11
UN Committee for Human Rights scarifies protection of human rights in Georgia
The Committee for Protection of Human Rights of the United Nations has made a number of remarks on inefficient protection of civil and political human rights in Georgia. They were stated during presentation of the Committee's conclusions on the 3rd Periodic Report on legal defence at the office of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia.
The conclusions of the Committee should be disseminated in public libraries, higher schools, public organizations, and in summary - in the languages of national minorities. The Georgian party should present its answers to the Committee not in 5 years as usual, but in a year, to the questions on the excess of powers by law enforcement bodies, custody conditions of prisoners and family violence.
"Eighteen independent experts were drafting the report; they did not subordinate to the UN Secretary General and to the UN Supreme Office for Human Rights. We gathered information from the official reports of the party in power and from local and international NGOs. After the country has acceded to the Covenant, it means that it is ready to listen to recommendations in its address. Fulfilment of the recommendations is not a liability. They are just guidelines, but the country can just take advantage of international experience and knowledge," Vladlen Stepanov, Senior Adviser for Human Rights in South Caucasus to the UN Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights, has noted in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari was satisfied with the report: "All these remarks of the detailed report are nicely mirroring the reality."
Author: Edita Badasian, CK correspondent
