The Human Rights Centre (HRIDC) is a Georgia-based NGO dedicated to the protection and promotion of human rights. Since its founding, HRIDC has built one of the most comprehensive human rights monitoring networks in the South Caucasus, combining on-the-ground documentation with strategic advocacy at national and international levels.

HRIDC employs staff across its head office in Tbilisi and field offices in Zugdidi, Batumi, Gori, and Gurjaani — ensuring that monitoring and legal aid reach communities across the full breadth of the country, including conflict-affected and remote regions.

Priority Areas

Strengthening the Rule of Law remains the foundation of HRIDC's mandate. This means not only documenting violations but actively pursuing legal remedy through the courts, and pressing for legislative reform that brings Georgian law into conformity with international human rights standards.

Supporting Freedom of Expression and Media is a priority area that has grown in urgency. HRIDC monitors threats to journalists and civil society actors, documents cases of censorship and intimidation, and publishes regular analyses of the media environment through its bilingual online platform HumanRights.ge.

Transitional Justice — particularly regarding the consequences of the 2008 war and ongoing conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia — remains an area of sustained engagement. HRIDC advocates for accountability, documentation of war crimes, and access to justice for affected civilians.

Promoting Equality and Social Inclusion encompasses HRIDC's programs on women's rights, minority rights, and the rights of persons with disabilities. The organization works to ensure that equality before the law is not merely formal but substantive.

Reinforcement of Democratic Processes includes electoral monitoring, civic education, and support for civil society organizations operating in an increasingly complex political environment.

Programs

HRIDC currently implements programs in the following areas: Children's Rights; Women's Rights; Trafficking in Persons; Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons; Media Freedom; Human Rights Defenders; Social, Economic and Cultural Rights; Minorities; and Conflict Prevention and Resolution.

Activities

• Monitoring and Documenting human rights violations across Georgia, including in conflict zones and hard-to-reach areas.
• Reporting on the human rights situation in Georgia to the EU, Council of Europe, OSCE, United Nations, ICC, and other international bodies on a regular basis.
• Lobbying and Advocacy for legislative and policy reforms before national and international institutions.
• Litigating cases of human rights violations through HRIDC's Legal Aid Centre, providing free legal representation to victims.
• Public Awareness Raising on human rights through the daily-updated bilingual online magazine HumanRights.ge and the video portal HRIDC.tv.
• Networking among human rights organizations at national and regional levels.