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Simon Papuashvili

International Partnership for Human Rights

Simon Papuashvili works as a  Programme Director for Brussels-based International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR). In this role, he is in charge of program development, management, and oversight, together with IPHR’s Director. Simon has been actively promoting human rights in his native South Caucasus for over two decades while practicing law since 2001. From 2004 -2006, he worked for the Georgian government, coordinating prison reform and representing the government before the European Court of Human Rights.

In 2008, he was actively documenting human rights violations committed during the armed conflict between the Russian Federation and Georgia and advocating alongside the Norwegian Helsinki Committee to end impunity in the region. In 2014, Simon co-established Truth Hounds – a Ukrainian initiative that has since been engaged in thorough documentation of grave human rights abuses and international crimes committed in Ukraine.