UN Human Rights Council adopts resolution on Georgia
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The United Nations Human Rights Council has adopted a resolution on cooperation with Georgia at its 40th session in Geneva yesterday.
In the resolution the Human Rights Council reaffirms its commitment to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders.
The Human Rights Council expresses "serious concern at the continuous process of installation of barbed wire fences and different artificial barriers along the administrative boundary line” in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia).
It also condemns:
- various forms of reported discrimination against ethnic Georgians,
- violations of the right to life,
- deprivation of liberty,
- arbitrary detentions and kidnappings,
- infringements of the right to property,
- violations of the right to health,
- restrictions on education in one’s native language in both Georgian regions, and
- the renewed practice of demolition of the ruins of houses belonging to internally displaced persons in Tskhinvali region.
In the resolution the Human Rights Council welcomes the efforts of the Government of Georgia “to strengthen democracy, the rule of law and the promotion and protection of human rights” as well.
In this context, it calls for "immediate and unimpeded access" to be given to the Office of the High Commissioner and international and regional human rights mechanisms to both occupied regions.
This is the Human Rights Council's third resolution on cooperation with Georgia. The first resolution was adopted in 2017. Georgia has been a member of the council since 2016.
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