General proposal on age based discrimination practices against children under the age of 10
Tbilisi. On July 20, 2020, the Public Defender addressed both Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia and Head of LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensics Bureau with a general proposal on the issue of avoiding age based discrimination practices while conducting forensic-psychiatric and complex psychiatric-psychological examinations.
The Public Defender explained that children under the age of 10 need to be treated differently, compared to people over the age of 10, taking into account their mental maturity. The fact that at this stage there are no special procedural guidelines for conducting forensic-psychiatric and complex psychiatric-psychological examinations of juveniles, puts minors under the age of 10 in an unequal position compared to those older than them. Such a practice is an age based discrimination treatment as the existing general rule has a negative impact on children under 10 years of age.
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