Jun
For the last of our 2021/22 Lunch with… series, we welcomed Khatuna Tsintsadze of the Zahid Mubarek Trust.
Currently co-director of the Zahid Mubarek Trust, Khatuna previously held a senior position with a national human rights organisation in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. In parallel, she worked as a national human rights expert on a number of international projects supported by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe and the European Commission.
Khatuna and her co-workers attracted death threats in Georgia for their work on diversity and equalities issues. She has a lot to say about the importance of the European Convention on Human Rights – currently being undermined by the British government – as a framework for defending fundamental human rights principles and practice.
Moving to the UK, she worked at The Monitoring Group, before joining the Zahid Mubarek Trust. The Trust was founded by the family of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek, who was murdered by his racist cellmate on the morning of his planned release from Feltham Young Offender Institution. The Trust advocates for justice and fairness across the prison system and for systemic change at a local and national level.
Khatuna holds a Master’s degree in Media Management from Tbilisi State University and was formerly a visiting fellow at The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, New York. She is currently enrolled on an MSt course in Criminology, Penology and Management at the University of Cambridge.
