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Georgian social workers set to strike unless work conditions improve

13 February 2019 by OC Media

(Social Services Agency)

Almost all of Georgia’s social workers are set to go on strike on 1 March, over what they say are poor working con­di­tions and a lack of resources. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, labour, labour conditions, social workers, strike, tbilisi, workers

Daghestan bans rally in support of activist denied access to dying daughter

12 February 2019 by OC Media

(Saida Vagabova / OC Media)

Author­i­ties in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have pro­hib­it­ed a rally in support of Anastasia Shevchenko, a Russian human rights activist under house arrest who was denied the right to see her dying daughter. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Anastasia Shevchenko, daghestan, makhachkala, protest, russia

Georgia identifies suspect in leaked sex tape

12 February 2019 by OC Media

Georgian MIA

Georgia’s Interior Ministry has named a man they suspect of uploading and dis­sem­i­nat­ing a sex tape of an unnamed person in January.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Eka Beselia, georgia, georgian dream, sex tape

Georgia axes secondary school exams in controversial education reforms

11 February 2019 by OC Media

(Georgia's Ministry of Education)

Georgia’s education ministry has announced plans to scrap stan­dard­ised grad­u­a­tion testing for secondary school students and to drop one of the four Unified National Exams — the stan­dard­ised entrance exams for Georgian uni­ver­si­ties. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: education, education ministry, exam, georgia, georgian dream, higher education, national exams, school, university

Azerbaijan cuts public funding for newspapers

11 February 2019 by Kamran Mahmudov

(report.az)

The Azer­bai­jani State Fund to Support Devel­op­ment of the Mass Media has raised the eli­gi­bil­i­ty require­ments for news­pa­pers to receive support, effec­tive­ly cutting off support for most news­pa­pers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Azerbaijan, freedom of expression, freedom of media, freedom of speech, journalists, media, newspapers

Georgian activists protest for human rights committee head to resign

8 February 2019 by OC Media

Friday’s protest calling for Sopo Kiladze to resign. (Dato Parulava / OC Media)

The head of Georgia’s Human Rights Committee, Sopo Kiladze, is facing calls for her res­ig­na­tion — the second time activists have demanded she go in under a year. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, human rights, kiladze, parliament, protest, sopo kiladze, tbilisi

Daghestani border communities demand transparency in Chechnya border discussions

8 February 2019 by OC Media

Khizri Shikh­saidov (left) with Ramzan Kadyrov (Ramzan Kadyrov's VKontakte)

Com­mu­ni­ties in districts of Daghestan bordering with Chechnya have demanded more trans­paren­cy in the ongoing process of border demar­ca­tion between the two Russian republics. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: border agreement, chechen-ingush land swap, chechnya, daghestan, grozny, ingushetia, russia

Georgian Dream–backed sexual harassment bill put before parliament

7 February 2019 by OC Media

A 2017 ‘Take Back the Night’ rally demanding leg­is­la­tion against sexual harass­ment (Dato Parulava / OC Media)

Sexual harass­ment in public and at work will become an admin­is­tra­tive offence in Georgia if a new bill initiated by the Parliament’s Gender Equality Council is passed. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, parliament, sexual harassment, women's rights, zviad devdariani

Russian senator for Karachay–Cherkessia arrested over double murder

7 February 2019 by OC Media

Rauf Arashukov being arrested in the Fed­er­a­tion Council (Sergey Bobylev / TASS)

Russian senator Rauf Arashukov has been arrested inside the Fed­er­a­tion Council, the Russian parliament’s upper chamber in Moscow, over the murder of two people in his native Karachay–Cherkessia. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: corruption, federation council, karachaevo-cherkessia, karachay–cherkessia, karachayevo-cherkessia, murder, Rauf Arashukov, Raul Arashukov, russia

MPs threaten to quit Georgian Dream over supreme justice nominees

6 February 2019 by OC Media

Eka Beselia (Tabula)

At least four MPs from Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party have threat­ened to leave the party, including the influ­en­tial former legal affairs committee chair Eka Beselia. The split has occurred over a list of can­di­dates for Georgia’s Supreme Court who critics say are part of a ‘clan’ within the judiciary.
[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Eka Beselia, georgia, georgian dream, Ivanishvili, judiciary, supreme court

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