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No jobs in Abkhazia’s Gali District

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In the market in Gali, the vendors are ethnic Georgians, however the owners of their counters are Abkhaz, according to locals. (Nino Gogua /OC Media)

Jobs are hard to come by in Abkhazia’s eastern Gali District, according to the ethnic Georgians who pre­dom­i­nant­ly make up the district’s pop­u­la­tion. They say that nepotism and dis­crim­i­na­tion, both direct and indirect, have made unem­ploy­ment rife. Some go to Sukhumi to the city’s highly unsafe con­struc­tion sites, while others are leaving for greener pastures.

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Georgia’s feminists face an uphill battle for equality

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The 10 December 2017 ‘Take Back the Night’ rally organised by the Inde­pen­dent Group of Feminists against sexual violence, demanding efficient leg­is­la­tion against sexual harass­ment (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

Despite a rise in the awareness of women’s rights in Georgia, feminist activists have found them­selves up against a deeply-rooted culture that hinders further progress. Early marriages, a lack of recog­ni­tion of the need for more female decision-makers, and impas­siv­i­ty towards women’s issues in the male-dominated par­lia­ment create a com­pound­ing, socially-driven force that stands on the way of gender equality.

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