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[Voice from Armenia] From surviving an axe attack to forging a new life

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Taguhi Mansuryan (Nazik Armenakyan/Daphne)

Daphne is a project from Armenia about women who have overcome hardships and chal­lenges. Women who despite the blows of fate, despite depri­va­tion and despair, were able to withstand their dif­fi­cul­ties and move forward. Below is Taguhi Mansuryan’s story. [Read more…]

[Voice of Armenia] From victim of violence to successful businesswoman

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Hasmik Khacha­tryan

Daphne is a project from Armenia about women who have overcome hardships and chal­lenges. Women who despite the blows of fate, despite depri­va­tion and despair, were able to withstand their dif­fi­cul­ties and move forward. Below is Hasmik Khachatryan’s story. [Read more…]

[Voice from Georgia] Tbilisi in denial — the seductive victims of sexual assault

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A large number of women’s issues have to do with stigmas and stereo­types that are based on non-existent bio­log­i­cal dif­fer­ences between men and women. According to a lot of people, mental capa­bil­i­ties, functions, beauty standards, pref­er­ences, and more, vary between sexes. This in turn causes problems for women, problems that are often ignored or not perceived as problems in the first place. What puzzles me is that people are sometimes even more oblivious to women’s issues that arise from an actual, existent dif­fer­ence between the two genders. [Read more…]

[Voice from Tbilisi] Women of Georgia — Gvantsa Apkhaidze, 25

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Gvantsa Apkhaidze (Salome Tsop­urashvili / Women of Georgia)

Women in Georgia very often lack a voice of their own. Their opinions, feelings, dreams, aspi­ra­tions, and achieve­ments can be conveyed by others, often the men around them. The Women in Georgia project gives a voice to these women, allowing them to tell their own stories — in their own words. The project collected 150 distinct stories from women through­out the country. OC Media brings you a selection of these stories, trans­lat­ed into English and Russian. Below, in her own words, Gvantsa Apkhaidze. [Read more…]

[Photo] Empowered Women in Georgia

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Empow­er­ment of women is one of the key topics of societies around the globe. It is relevant not only from an ethical and moral per­spec­tive. It activates one of the largest sources of untapped human capital  we have. Por­tray­ing this topic visually through the eye of a man was a fas­ci­nat­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty with unknown outcome. The idea was developed together with the famous and award-winning National Geo­graph­ic pho­tog­ra­ph­er John Stanmeyer who led an inter­na­tion­al workshop on visual sto­ry­telling in Tbilisi. [Read more…]

[Voice from Armenia] From a survivor of sexual violence to human rights advocate

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'I realized that defending my rights was only in my own hands'./ Lucy Abdel Ahad (Daphne)

Daphne is a project from Armenia about women who have overcome hardships and chal­lenges. Women who despite the blows of fate, despite depri­va­tion and despair, were able to withstand their dif­fi­cul­ties and move forward. Below is Lucy Abdel Ahad’s story. [Read more…]

Protests in Tbilisi after girl, 17, kidnapped in Marneuli

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Protest at the Prosecutor's Office (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Human rights activists gathered on 30 April in front of the Prosecutor’s Office in Tbilisi, to condemn the frequency of early and forced marriages in Georgia. Pro­test­ers condemned the government’s ‘sick policy’ towards forced and early marriages in Georgia, saying that the author­i­ties are tolerant of the abuse. [Read more…]

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