Action Plan of the Government of Georgia on the Protection of Human Rights 2014-2016.

The Action Plan of the Government of Georgia on the Protection of Human Rights 2014-2016 is a national cross-sectoral action plan. Among others, its objectives include maintenance of high levels of human rights protection in the social reintegration/ rehabilitation programs of former prisoners; strengthening the monitoring and coordinating mechanism for child rights; strengthening the system of protection and assistance for children; eradication of child poverty; support of children’s right to health; achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women; fight against discrimination on grounds of gender identity and sexual orientation; strengthening legal and social rights of IDPs; formulation of policies focusing on the protection of their rights; consideration of the rights guaranteed in the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees; legal and social protection of displaced persons as a result of natural or human-made disasters (eco-migrants); realization of the rights of repatriates, forcibly exiled from the former Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, by the former USSR in the 1940s; protection of the rights of residents living near the borders of occupied territories and improvements in their substandard socio-economic and humanitarian conditions; provision of equal opportunities for persons with disabilities; and creation of guarantees for the inviolability of property rights, in accordance with internationally recognized standards; acknowledgement of the inviolability of environmental rights, in accordance with international standards.