Georgia’s first woman president Salome Zura­bishvili has come under fire from women’s groups for appoint­ing as her par­lia­men­tary secretary a man who ‘portrayed sexual harass­ment as almost the norm’. The groups cited comments made by Dimitri Gabunia while rep­re­sent­ing former NGO-head Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani, who has been accused of sexual harass­ment and sexual assault by around dozen women. [Read more…]