Children’s Rights
Georgian government urged to crack down on forced marriages after ‘16-year-old rape victim kidnapped again’
Human rights groups have called on the Georgian government to strengthen measures against forced and early marriages after a girl who was raped when she was 14 years old was kidnapped again two years later by her alleged rapist. The Equality Coalition, a group of prominent Georgian rights groups, said in a statement that the 14-year-old girl was kidnapped by several people and then raped by a 24-year-old man in December 2015 in Sagarejo Municipality, in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti Region. T
