Incumbent MP Sopio Kiladze elected member of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Sopio Kiladze has been the chair the parliamentary human rights committee. Photo: Sopio Kiladze/Facebook
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Incumbent ruling Georgian Dream party MP Sopio Kiladze has been elected the first Georgian member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Kiladze wrote on Facebook earlier today that this has been ‘a huge success’ for Georgia on the international level.
She then thanked the 125 countries which have supported her candidacy thus giving Georgia a chance to have a representation at ‘this important committee’.
I will be working with every interested party, country, civil society to ensure a better future for our children”, Kiladze wrote.
UNICEF Georgia has congratulated Sopio Kiladze on being elected a CRC member.
UNICEF congratulates Ms. Sopio Kiladze on being elected as a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. This is the first time ???????? will have a member in the CRC Committee. UNICEF wishes Ms. Kiladze a productive and fruitful work in her new capacity. pic.twitter.com/F07EubYcY1
— UNICEF Georgia (@unicefgeorgia) November 25, 2020
The CRC is the body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its state parties.
Earlier in June fifty-three Georgian non-governmental organisations had called on the CRC not to elect Kiladze for her homophobic statements against minorities.
The government of Georgia's financial assistance significantly has contributed to poverty alleviation, says a microsimulation model report on the pandemic’s effect on the population and child poverty presented by UNICEF and the Georgian government today.
Fifty-three non-governmental organisations call on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) not to elect the ruling Georgian Dream parry MP Sopio Kiladze, who currently chairs the Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, as a member of the CRC.
A total of 29,800 children in Georgia do not have proper conditions to even wash their hands with soap and water at home, says UNICEF, which added that children living in families where there is a lack of proper conditions and sanitary facilities are especially vulnerable to the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
The Georgian parliament has adopted the Code on the Rights of the Child which UNICEF has called a ‘groundbreaking achievement’ and an important landmark for every child in Georgia.UNICEF says that the code which was developed by the Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee of the Georgian parliament with their technical support will have a long-lasting effect on the lives of children in Georgia.