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GCRT in cooperation with Global Initiative on Psychiatry (Tbilisi and Hillversum offices) Union Saphari, Ministry of Corrections and Legal Aid, Ministry of Education and Public Defender’s Office is implementing an EU funded project “Ensuring Access to Sustainable Development for Juvenile Convicts through an Issue Based Inter-Sectoral Cooperation”
Monitoring of accessibility of healthcare services begins in Juvenile Correctional Facility
GCRT, Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance of Georgia and Open Society Georgia Foundation are starting a joint project. Memorandum of understanding was signed on March 11th. The project is financed by Open Society Georgia Foundation and aims to explore (look at) the accessibility of medical services in Juvenile Correctional Establishment. As a result the existing gaps and needs in the establishment will be identified. The monitoring will last 6 months. Through the research it will be revealed how are the rights of prisoners as patients respected; to what degree is the health service accessible for them, is the quality of medical assistance adequate and how are the issues of public health epidemiology and clinical medicine organized.
On January 30th 2010 GCRT and Fine and Applied arts center of As well as last year, with support of GCRT professionals 3 juvenile prisoners participated in the literary contest Alubloba. One of them was able to attend the award ceremony, which took place on December 20th 2009. Participants received books as presents and the work of one of them was published in “Alubloba 2009”. On June 26 GCRT commemorated the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In the morning GCRT attended the conference "Together Agains Torture" organized by Public Defender of Georgia and "Empathy", the Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of Torture which was held in Sheraton Metekhi Palace. GCRT was one of the the co-organizers of the conference. After the conferecne GCRT and Human Rights Centre held silent gathering to support the victims of torture in Vera Park, followed by film and book presentation by GCRT in the Literature cafe. The book-album "My name is. . . " presented at the cafe is about personal stories of GCRT's clients, both in English and Georgian languages. GCRT also presented a short animated film "Reflection" about the topic of torture.
At the Public Defender’s office, GCRT Batumi branch office organized event, where the representatives of human rights NGO-s, governmental sector and local media participated. Staff from Tbilisi Central office also attended the event. Participants underlined importance of this day, prevalence of torture despite of its prohibition by the International Law, and its devastating effects. The attendants saw an animated film “Reflection” made by GCRT, GCRT Batumi also presented a book “My name is…”. Then the discussion took place around the presented material, participants discussed several torture cases, which occurred in the region. The above mentioned book was distributed among participants, together with judicial and informative literature. The event and the animation film were broadcasted through the local TV channel. After the presentation of the book and the film there was a discussion on topic of torture. The event was broadcasted through the local TV channel. International Conference: “Post-Emergency Responses: an Integrated Approach to psychotrauma” October 17-18, 2008 in The conference aimed to provide a high-quality, professional exchange forum for participants for discussing the past and recent experiences in traumatic stress field, ways of responding to acute crisis following August military actions. The conference offered a comprehensive overview of evidence-based interventions currently available for those affected by disasters both in emergencies and the long-term perspective. As a result of military conflict in
On 7th of August the escalation of Georgian and GCRT Commemorates 26th of June – UN International
Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Juvenile Inmates from now on will have an enamel studio GCRT opens its new branch in Batumi From now on GCRT has a new branch in
With support of GCRT professionals Aleksandre Magalashvili decided to participate in the literary contest Alubloba and won the nomination “Best Debut”. Aleksandre attended the awarding ceremony and received presents: DVD player, books etc. |
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