Georgia as CoE chair calls for renewal of organization’s laws on environment, human rights

Georgia as the Council of Europe (CoE) chair country has called for the renewal of the organization’s laws on human rights and environmental protection to make sanctions and obligations clearer and stronger against environmental and organised crimes. 

In the declaration made yesterday in Strasbourg at the conference on environmental protection and human rights, which was attended by Georgian Minister of Environmental protection Levan Davitashvili, Georgia called for a review of the existing legislation pertaining to these issues in the Council of Europe. 

Photo: CoE.

Beyond the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (1979) and the European Landscape Convention (2000), the Council of Europe has developed further legal standards that need to be implemented and upgraded in light of current urgent environmental and climate challenges,” says the declaration.

Human rights and the Environment Protect are among Georgia’s priority as the CoE chair country, the position the country took over in November 2019 from France.

We have set human rights and environmental protection; civil participation in decision-making; child-friendly justice and democracy through education, culture and youth engagement as the #CoE Georgian Presidency’s overriding priorities for the next 6 months. pic.twitter.com/VmD84PUxfa

— MFA of Georgia (@MFAgovge) November 26, 2019