| SUMMARY |
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| CONTACT
INFORMATION |
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| Name
of Office (In National Language) |
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| Name
of Office (In English) |
Child Rights Center |
| Postal
Address |
11 Machabeli Str.
380007 Tbilisi Georgia |
| Visiting
Address |
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| Telephone |
(995 32) 93 92 82,
93 92 42 |
| Fax |
(995
32) 92 24 78 |
| Email
address |
child_r@hotmail.com |
| WWW |
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| Title
of Ombudsman |
Public Defender of
Georgia |
| Name
of Ombudsman |
Ms. Nana Devdariani |
| Name
of contact person for ENOC |
Ms. Tamta Tsutsunava |
| OFFICE
SIZE AND STRUCTURE |
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| Number of staff
members |
3 staff
members and 6 volunteers |
| List
of staff members and functions |
| List of staff members and functions:
Head of the Center –
Ms. Manana Abuladze and 3 volunteers functions:
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Tamta Tsutsunava
- Educational, scientific and researching activities;
II. Relations with governmental and
non-governmental organizations dealing with children and youth issues.
Ms. Tamar Romelashvili and 3 volunteers:
- Examination of the legislative acts concerning the
children rights protection;
- Informational activities
- Mass media;
- Magazine, TV and radio programs;
- Analyze of the collected materials and provides an
information data bank and regular up-dating;
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| Administrative
Officers |
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| Projects |
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Note
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| Summary
of annual Budget
Salaries in amount of $40 per staff per month
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| Principal sources
of funding
UNICEF in Georgia was funding the Child Rights Center’s
activities within 2001 in amount of 4 533 USD and now is preparing the
second cooperation agreement for 2002
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| HISTORY
OF THE OFFICE |
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| Date the office
was established |
24 April
2001 |
| Initiator
of the Ombudsman office
UNICEF in Georgia and the Public
Defender of Georgia |
Steps
Involved in establishing office
- Structure changes in the Office of the Public
Defender – The Child Rights Center was established within the
Public Defender Office;
- Cooperation Agreement between UNICEF and Public
Defender of Georgia
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| Major
changes in structure, focus and activities
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and
international conventions and arrangements on children provide the basis
for the Center’s program of action. The area of responsibility of the
Center is to advocate for the rights and interests of children and young
people in society.
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| Terms
of reference or Mission Statement |
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| Standing
instructions |
| AIMS
AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES |
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Office Activities
- Direct consultation with individual children
- Telephone hotline
- Community meetings with groups of children at the
Office
- Community meetings with groups of children at the
schools
- Internet
- Was established the consultative council of youth
at the Center
Categories of activities the office undertakes
- Influencing policy development at national level,
at regional level, at local/community level
- Data collection on children
- Monitoring the impact of laws/policies on children
- Monitoring the implementation of the Convention on
the Rights of the Child
- Individual casework
- Education/awareness raising on children rights
- Training of professionals or other groups on
children rights
- Established the consultative council of
governmental and non-governmental organizations dealing with
children issues and consultative council of youth
Office Experience
- The justice system
- The school system
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| EVALUATIONS/STUDIES |
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| Evaluation
of the effectiveness/impact of the office
Hard social and economic situation in
Georgia and financial problems concerning to Center’s activities |
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| Other
publications or studies available
Bulletin on the Child Rights Center and
other publications |
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| ADDITIONAL
DETAILS |
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COUNTRY UPDATE - |
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To ENOC, October 2001
Report by the Child Rights Center of Georgia
The Child Rights Center was established within the
Public Defender’s Office in April 2001. The UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child and international conventions and arrangements on children
provide the basis for the Center’s program of action. The area of
responsibility of the Center is to advocate for the rights and interests
of children and young people in society.
The Child Rights Center aims to:
 | Promote coordination and partnership between government and
non-governmental organizations in protecting children’s rights; |
| Assist various governmental structures in developing an overall
strategy on child rights; |
| Initiate the conduct of researches and studies on child rights
highlighting the situation of children in Georgia; |
| Promote compliance of Georgian Laws on children and harmonization
with UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; |
| Inform and educate young people about the Law. To fix the facts of
the violation of the juvenile rights, play mediator role in their
relations with the governmental structures; |
| Consult with children and other people seeking protection the rights
and interests of children; |
| Introduce new approaches in addressing the situation of children
need of special protection measures; |
| Promote the popularization of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child. Society have to know that children’s rights are integrated
into the mainstream of the human rights; |
| Get acquainted with the experience of the other countries in
promoting the Child Rights Center. |
The Child Rights Center co-operates with different
governmental structures; provides forums by the participation with NGOs
working on children issues to ensure co-ordination and collaboration
through regular periodic meetings.
The Center co-operates closely with children, young
people and youth organizations. One of the most important tasks is to
involve children and young people in public debates.
The Center seeks to provide a venue for children to
express their views on current issues. Among the channels used are
letters, telephone communication, Internet as well as through the children
and Youth Parliament and other children’s organizations.
The Center actively participates in public debates,
shaping opinion on important issues as well as influencing the attitudes
of politicians and decision makers on protection of child rights.
The Child Rights Center provides an information data
bank on children. The data bank includes research results, analytical
database, statistics and programs on children.
The Center prepares articles on children’s issues,
facilitates lobbying and arranging meetings, training-seminars and
conferences on child rights.
The Public Defender’s Office will dedicate a chapter
of its report to child rights activities.
Mrs. Tamta Tsutsunava
Head of the Child rights Center of Georgia
Child Rights Center
Public Defender Office of Georgia
11 Machabeli Str. 380007 Tbilisi Georgia
Telephone (995 32) 93 92 82; 93 92 42
Telefax (995 32) 92 24 78
E-mail: child_r@hotmail.com |
