Georgia’s low domestic violence statistics don’t add up

by Inge Snip

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Research by UN Women suggests that only 1% of Georgia’s women faced intimate partner violence in 2017 — but abuse is often unrecognised. This is an edited version of an article by openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project.  On the night that Nino (not her real name) ended up in the hospital, she had just put her four-year-old to bed when her husband, Temur (not his real name), stormed into their two-storey house in a small Georgian village.  Watching him from the kitchen sink, unsure w