The Office of the Public Defender of Georgia

• Supervision of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child;
• Raising level of public awareness and education on children’s rights;
• Foster changes in procedures and laws – recommendations to legislative bodies;
• Facilitation of integration of children in need of special care in the rest of society;
• Familiarization with interests and problems of childre

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   • Specifying the process of monitoring the children’s institutions - building the data base of children’s institutions, creating better questionaires, involving necessary professionals etc.;
   • Monitoring schools – on the issue of violence against school children;
   • Monitoring the fulfillment of the recommendations given to different administrative bodies;
   • Monitoring the process of children’s deinstitutionalization;
   • Individual casework; investigating complaints about the violation of child’s rights;
   • publishing work – brochures, leaflets, booklets for distributing in different communities, creating the website;
   • Training of different professional groups  on children’s rights;
   • Activities to promote integration of children (charity acts, performances, campaigns, mountain trips, etc.).