Human Rights Developments

Defending Human Rights

The Role of the International Community

Defending Human Rights

Vibrant nongovernmental organizations in Tbilisi continued to work in a broad array of areas, including human rights education and monitoring, the environment, women’s issues, and the rights of ethnic minorities. Human rights organizations carried out a number of innovative and effective human rights and civic education programs.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs hindered the efforts of some nongovernmental organizations to monitor night conditions in Tbilisi police holding facilities, and restricted access to post-conviction facilities for others involved in monitoring and providing humanitarian assistance to prisons. Nevertheless, many other senior government officials and members of parliament proved willing to meet with nongovernmental organizations and act on concerns they raised.