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STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
2016-12-10 Stand up for Human Rights Today! The entire world is celebrating the International Human Rights Day with this slogan this year. Reception in relation with the global event has been hosted by H.E. Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia in Tbilisi on behalf of the Government of Georgia (GOG). "Georgia acceded to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2015, while Mr. Shalva Tsiskarashvili, Head of Georgian Mission in Geneva was elected as a Vice President of the Council last week. We are proud of this achievement, however we do not get content and intensively pursue our efforts further. We have a solid political will to protect the human rights, by thereby improving the legal framework and institutional mechanisms in the area concerned. We will be resuming a review of the Third Wave of the Judiciary Reform at the Parliament of Georgia. I believe that our key goal is to reach a milestone achievement within this initiative. We need to make sure that a very solid public perception manifests itself on the protection of human rights in Georgia, on having solid institutional mechanisms and operation of the judiciary system with standards that are deployed in the modern world. Engagement of the NGO sector is very important for this. Hence, we shall do our best to establish relevant platforms of public dialogue to ensure the engagement of all the stakeholders, including the NGOs, in this most needed reform implementation. Support and engagement of our international partners in the decision-making process is equally important at every level of the initiative" added the Prime Minister of Georgia. Reception dedicated to the International Human Rights Day organized by the Government of Georgia was attended by the diplomatic corps, Government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), international community and NGOs. Supporters of the event were the European Union (EU) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) within a EU funded project titled as Human Rights for All.
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