Public Defender Levan Ioseliani will present today an annual report on the state of human rights and freedoms protection.

The mentioned document was prepared by the former Ombudsman Nino Lomjaria and was presented to the Parliament on March 31, 2023.

In the reporting period - 2022, 5,277 applications were submitted to the Office of the Public Defender, on which appropriate legal responses were made. 12 104 calls were made to the hotline to eliminate the identified rights violations. The Public Defender addressed 74 recommendations to the state agencies.

As Levan Ioseliani said during the committee review of the report, the severe socio-economic situation in the country has a negative impact on the legal status of people. Poverty remains one of the main challenges of the country. One of the main problems in the country is child poverty.