Georgia is the participant country in international convention on UN protecting children’s rights, though the country doesn’t have distinct and concrete acting national strategy either now or since 1990 that would make possible protecting of the rights recognized by the convention general and preventive and this will make possible to decrease the facts of violance towards children and to create effective mechanisms of protecting under-aged, to make appropriate surroundings for children development and the state should care about setting their social defense system.

We think that deinstitutionalization of under-aged and the reform carried out in legislation in important activities in government though there is no fixed the national strategy of protecting children’s rights. The state of children being outside the caring system of the state is still the problem.  In 2011 there was revealed hundreds of care lacking children who aren’t registered nowhere in state organs. Here there is meant under-aged living in different shelters.

The process of carrying out justice of under-aged is very important question and we think that the state should consider real interests of children while taking decision. The goal should become avoiding under-aged from criminals and not their improvement in penitentiary system. From this standpoint, according to the statistics of 2011 in Georgian jails there are 199 underage boy and 2 girls that makes the state program on avoidance and mediation in front of important exam.

“Young Advocates” think that the state does nothing in the sphere of children’s right protection – for the purpose of changing the conditions of the most distinct social problem – so called “street children”.  Furthermore, such social layer is increasing yearly in Georgia. The state doesn’t define the status and definition of mentioned category of under-aged. Unfortunately there is no state statistics for determining the number of children of such category, otherwise in 2008 UN committee recommendation taken at the meeting 28, gave concrete directives to the government of Georgia in order to correct the situation. We read in recommendation that Georgia is obliged: “to make complex research in the country to evaluate the scale, nature and reasons of street children, to create national strategy of prevention”, though it is already four years this recommendation hasn’t been followed by appropriate concrete activities. According to one of the researches made in 2007 the number of so-called “street children” was about 1600, though the research was made only on the example of Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Batumi and Telavi and it is easily presumable that the number of such children is even more for today. The main difficulty is that children of mentioned status don’t have juridical documentation, living places and some of them don’t exist from juridical point of view at all. So, their participation and adaptation in different educational or social programs is just impossible.

For us it is especially important to protect the freedom of under aged and abolishment of discrimination and from this angle we appeal high official persons to keep the obligation of endurance (the case of Mikheil Aleksidze) and on the other hand the influence made on under-aged from the administrations of public schools connected with the sanction made not in educational building but in public space for dressing up tee-shirts supporting political parties is unacceptable.

“Young Advocates” think that it is necessary and relevant the state to start carrying out the real rights recognized by article-26 of the international convention and to make the social insurance system of under aged that would make the insurance of children equally acceptable and special attention will be paid to the health state of under aged children. 

It is true that in autumn of 2011 the government of Georgia declared that it would provide the insurance of children under 5 years, but mentioned initiative is still in drawing condition and doesn’t follow the best interests of children recognized by the convention. The example how the state can reveal the attention to under aged children is in the United States of America, where about 6.5 million children under 18 years old have mentioned insurance and among them there are 3.1 million disable under age children and after the terrorist act of September 11, 2011 additionally 2000 children have privileges foreseen by the insurance.