Functions of the Department:

• Facilitation, management and coordination of international relations between the Ministry and the Special Penitentiary Service.
• Cooperation with partner states and international organizations and preparation of state reports for them.
• Performing the functions of the contact person and the central body of international organizations.
• Coordinating, monitoring and reporting on the implementation of human rights obligations.
• Coordinating and monitoring penitentiary reform.
• Drug monitoring in Georgia and implementation of the function of the Drug Monitoring Center.
• Implementing mutual legal assistance in civil law cases (submission of court and non-judicial materials, enforcement of court decisions, coordination of work experience).
• Implementing mutual legal assistance in criminal cases (extradition of wanted persons, transfer / receipt of convicts for further execution of sentences, transfer of wanted persons and foreign convicts, execution of sentences).
• Managing and coordinating child abduction cases.
• Consulting citizens.

Management / Coordination of Thematic Interagency Councils / Commissions and Policy Making (development of strategies and action plans, reporting, production of statistics):

1. Combatting human trafficking.

2. Drug policy.

3. Combating torture and ill-treatment.

4. Implementation of UN terrorism sanctions.

5. Implementation of international humanitarian law.

contact information:

Ketevan Sarajishvili

Head of Department:

Tel: (+995 32) 2 405 204

E-mail: Intlawdep@justice.gov.ge