Public Lecture ‘Human Rights in a Democratic State’ Held at GTU

A public lecture was held at the Faculty of Law and International Relations of the Georgian Technical University, organized by the GTU Christian Culture Research Laboratory, and with the involvement of the administration of Public School No. 161, for the graduating students of Tbilisi Public School No. 161.
At the public lecture “Human Rights in a Democratic State”, which was led by the Head of the Christian Culture Research Laboratory, Professor Kakha Dzagania, and the consultant of the laboratory, Doctor of Social Sciences Khatuna Saginashvili. The speakers discussed the impact of legislative changes on the development of human rights protection and their application in practice.

As Kakha Dzagania stated, the cooperation between the Faculty of Law and International Relations and the Christian Culture Research Laboratory of the Georgian Technical University allows for interesting and topical discussions on eternal values and universal or indivisible topics for school students.

According to him, rights determine the dignified existence of each person, therefore, the fundamental human rights are based on the concepts of dignity and equality, and the university is the space where future generations will receive comprehensive information on the eternal, universal, and indivisible issue – human rights.

“We live in a rapidly changing world, where it is important to know where our rights end and those of others begin. Let us know there is no qualitative difference between human rights and freedoms. Both give an individual the opportunity to perform certain actions or protect against external influences. Rights impose a positive obligation on the state and require one to take active action and appropriate measures to protect the right, while freedom, first of all, gives people the opportunity to act freely, and the state limits the restriction of these opportunities. According to the Constitution of Georgia, “the state recognizes and protects universally recognized human rights and freedoms as inalienable and supreme human values.” The aforementioned provision of the Constitution represents the constitutional legislator’s obligation to recognize and protect human rights as pre-state values. We are trying to create an environment that will allow young people to have in-depth information on these important issues at an early age, to raise a new generation that will be able to be leaders and support changes,” Kakha Dzagania noted.

At the end of the public lecture, an educational and entertaining game on the topic of human rights was held, after which the students were awarded honorary diplomas.