Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

Year: 2019
Type: Technical
Regions: Europe

Monitoring of refugee status determination procedures/individual cases and court hearings/individual cases of rejected asylum seekers;

To continue monitoring of refugee status determination procedures/individual cases and court hearing/individual cases in order to handle individual complaints and to identify challenges in asylum and judiciary system, through observation of procedures and court hearings and analyzing cases solicited from courts, and through recommendations to improve the situation in terms of human rights protection and the implementation of the rule of law.

The Public Defender of Georgia is authorized to consider applications about violations of human rights and freedoms enshrined in the laws of Georgia, as well as in the international treaties and agreements, the party to which is Georgia.