Human Rights Center
research / education / legal assistance / media and campaigning / home violence / harassment / migrants and internally displaced / ethnic minorities
Georgia. Tbilisi
Coverage: Georgia
Type: Initiative
Description:
The Human Rights Center (HRIDC) was founded on December 10th 1996, is an NGO dedicated to protection and promotion of human rights, rule of law and peace in Georgia. The Human Rights centre (HRIDC) is free of any political or religious affiliation.
HRIDC believes that everyone is entitled to freely exercise her/his civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights guaranteed by national and international law. Practical realisation of these rights without any discrimination is a cornerstone for peace and democracy in Georgia based on human rights and the rule of law.
Aims and objectives:
HRIDC aims to increase respect for human rights and thus contributes to the creation and maintenance of a rights-based democracy in Georgia. Fundamental to achieving this goal is ensuring that a human rights culture exists in Georgia, state bodies respect the rule of law and that discrimination is defeated.
Main activities:
• Monitoring and Documenting human rights violations in Georgia.
• Reporting on human rights situation in Georgia to the EU, Council of Europe, OSCE, UN, ICC and others international bodies on regular basis.
• Lobbying and Advocacy of legislative and policy reforms before national and international institutions.
• Litigating cases on human rights violations through Legal Aid Centre free of charge.
• Public Awareness Raising on human rights situation in Georgia by daily-updatable bilingual online magazine www.HumanRights.ge and video-portal www.hridc.tv.
• Networking among human rights organizations on national and regional level.