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DRI report to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
19.05.2021
The Democracy Research Institute (DRI) has submitted a report on the humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied territories of Georgia to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The UN Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution entitled “Cooperation with Georgia”, as a result of which, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights publishes a report detailing the humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied territories of Georgia.[1]
The DRI report focused on the following issues:
- Borderization and arrests of Georgian citizens
- Restrictions on freedom of movement and aggravated humanitarian situation
- Right to health and access to medical services (Covid-19)
- Restrictions on the right to receive education in the mother tongue in Gali and Akhalgori
- Cases of persecution and harassment (Tamar Mearakishvili)
- Systemic practices of torture and inhuman treatment, cases of ineffective investigation and impunity (Inal Jabiev, Davit Basharuli, Giga Otkhozoria, Irakli Kvaratskhelia, Archil Tatunashvili, etc.)
- Military bases of the Russian Federation in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia and their impact on human rights
The UN Human Rights Council has been adopting a resolution on the occupied territories of Georgia since 2017.
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