#KingdomNL recommended #SaoTomeandPrincipe at #UPR51 to:
🔹Adopt & integrate (inter)national instruments to protect & prevent VAWG, address persistent gender stereotypes.
🔹Uphold fundamental freedoms, e.g. decriminalise defamation & adopt a bill on access to public information.
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#KingdomNL recommended #SaintKittsandNevis at #UPR51 to:
🔹Adopt anti-discrimination legislation that prohibits discrimination based on SOGI.
🔹Implement mandatory training for public officials on sexual orientation, gender equality & applying anti-discrimination legislation.
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UPR51: 🇬🇧UK Statement on 🇬🇪Georgia
Statement by the UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN, Kumar Iyer, at Georgia's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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www.gov.uk/government/s...
That marks the end of the review of #Georgia. Join us tomorrow at 9.00am CET for the review of #StKittsandNevis at: webtv.un.org/en
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#KingdomNL recommended #Georgia during #UPR51 to:
🔹Investigate excessive use of force by law enforcement against protesters and establish safeguards to prevent recurrence.
🔹Guarantee the right to peaceful assembly under IHRL, ensuring safe participation for all.
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#Georgia should:
- Cease the smear campaign against human rights organisations, human rights defenders & lawyers, including by high-level politicians & government-controlled media outlets. (12/12)
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#Georgia should:
- Work towards the implementation of the recommendations included in my country visit report;
- Fully guarantee the right to peaceful assembly & refrain from the use of excessive use of force against protesters; (11/12)
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#Georgia should:
- Repeal the Law on Family Values & Protection of Minors;
- Review the functioning of the Anti-Corruption Bureau & provide independent judicial review of the decisions to freeze the banks accounts of human rights NGOs; (10/12)
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#Georgia should:
- Repeal the Foreign Agents Registration Act & recent amendments to the Law on Grants;
- Repeal recent modifications to the Code of Administrative Offences, the Law on Assemblies & Demonstrations & the Criminal Code; (9/12)
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Alongside these laws, HRDs in #Georgia have faced smear campaigns & spurious criminal cases, including for "sabotage." LGBTIQ+ rights defenders are especially targeted, including through the so-called "LGBT propaganda law." (8/12)
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Civil society has also been targeted under new laws, including the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) & the Law on Grants, which blocks NGOs from receiving or renewing grants without govt approval. (7/12)
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Between Dec 2024 & Feb 2025, the Georgian Parliament rushed through legislative reforms affecting assemblies, administrative offences & criminal law, all of which seriously restrict the ability of people to defend human rights. (6/12)
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After #Georgia’s PM announced in Nov 2024 a halt to EU accession efforts, mass protests were met with alleged widespread human rights violations, excessive use of force & reports of torture in detention. (5/12)
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In force since May 2025, the law forces NGOs & media receiving over 20% foreign funding to register as "foreign interest" organisations & submit detailed annual financial disclosures. (4/12)
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Since 2023, human rights defenders opposing the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence have faced intimidation, threats & physical attacks for speaking out. (3/12)
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During my visit, I documented a serious decline in the space to exercise the right to defend human rights in #Georgia, with governmental repression of civil society, critical journalists & independent human rights defenders. (2/12)
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My mandate led or joined 8 communications to #Georgia since its last UPR review in 2021, none of which received a response. I also travelled to Georgia on an official country visit in Oct-Nov 2023, & presented my report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2024. (1/12)
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The delegation of #Georgia has been asked to ratify the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Their Families by states such as Paraguay and Nigeria.
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Many states have made recommendations to #Georgia on the full protection of children, including from all forms of corporal punishment, domestic violence, and their access to full inclusive education.
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#Georgia has received many recommendations by states like Romania and Mongolia on promoting the participation of women in all aspects of life. The delegation has answered with data evidencing 49% of managerial positions in the public service are currently filled by women.
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States like Malawi and Qatar have recommended #Georgia to promote the rights of persons with disabilities by ensuring access to inclusive education, protection and access to the digital space, and strengthening national awareness campaigns to end hate towards them.
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#UPR51: #Luxembourg🇱🇺 recommends to #Georgia🇬🇪:
1️⃣ Ensure freedom of expression, association & peaceful assembly
2️⃣ Combat discrimination & hate speech against minorities
3️⃣ Strengthen women’s rights incl. #SRHR
4️⃣ Ensure inclusive education for all children incl. Roma
Albania, Moldova and Sweden have implored #Georgia to ensure a reform of the judiciary that ensures its independence, transparency and impartiality.
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#Georgia has received recommendations by states like Uruguay and Norway on enhancing access to sexual and reproductive health services, and ensuring the protection of the LGBTQ+ community against discrimination and hate speech.
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States like Rwanda and Spain have made recommendations to #Georgia to step up efforts to combat all forms of violence affecting both women and girls, including enhancing their protection, guaranteeing access to free legal aid, and ensuring victims receive reparations.
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#Georgia also mentioned mentioned it has the lowest level of corruption in the region, and the highest economic growth, as well as advances on prison reforms and access to free legal aid for victims of gender-based violence.
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In its opening statement, #Georgia spoke about their good practices, including regular national reports, open invitation to mandate holders during reporting periods, and dating as first according to international insights in terms of budgetary transparency.
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Join us for the review of #Georgia happening right now!
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#KingdomNL recommended #Australia at #UPR51 to:
🔹Continue working in partnership with First Nations peoples to establish a comprehensive National Action Plan.
🔹Address and combat all forms of SGBV and intersecting discrimination against women and girls, in line with CEDAW.
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#KingdomNL recommended #Austria at #UPR51 to:
🔹Improve protection of journalists by combatting smear campaigns against media.
🔹Ensure equal protection from all forms of religious discrimination and equal treatment in law.
🔹Improving data collection on GBV and femicide.
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