On October 7, 2022, at the plenary sitting of the Parliament of Georgia, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria presented 2021 Report on the Situation of Human Rights and Freedoms in Georgia. The almost 400-page report is based on up to 5,000 applications and 11,100 phone notifications received by the Office, as well as the results of hundreds of monitoring visits made by the Office to prisons, psychiatric facilities, military units and other institutions over the past year.

On October 5, 2022, the Public Defender’s Office of Georgia and UNHCR Georgia held a joint presentation of the report on the rights situation of asylum seekers and internationally protected persons. Tamar Gvaramadze, First Deputy Public Defender of Georgia, and Johan Frantz, Protection Officer at UNHCR, emphasized the importance of joint work in the direction of the protection of human rights of asylum seekers and internationally protected persons and expressed hope for continued cooperation.