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Voice from Dedoplistskaro | ‘I dreamed of seeing a child protection hotline and calling it’

20 June 2018 by Women of Georgia

Sopio Jeter­ishvili (Salome Sagharadze /Women of Georgia)

‘I think that if a person really wants to do something, if it’s in their soul, they can do it. I’ve wanted to be inde­pen­dent since I was a child. I made several attempts at it. I escaped from home a few times. I don’t know why but since very early childhood, when I was so little, I already knew I didn’t want to live in that house, where they don’t love you and you don’t love them.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: abuse, child, domestic violence, family violence, georgia, kakheti, telavi, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Devdariani labels sexual harassment allegations ‘gossip’ and vows to sue eight women

7 June 2018 by OC Media

Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani (GPB)

Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani, the former head of Georgian non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion CiDA, has said he will sue eight women for ‘violating his honour and dignity’. Dev­dar­i­ani has faced alle­ga­tions of sexual harass­ment or sexual assault from at least 10 women. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abuse, georgia, harrassment, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, tbilisi, violence, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Voice from Guria | ‘The prices for medicines are insane; isn’t this repression?’

10 May 2018 by Women of Georgia

Rusudan Chelidze (Nino Baidauri / Women of Georgia)

Rusudan Chelidze, 80, Zemo Bakhvi, Guria

 ‘You cannot really call what we went through back then childhood. There were only two of us. We had no one else out there in the whole world.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: elderly people, georgia, guria, old woman, political repression, poverty, soviet union, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Devdariani ‘to sue women’ who have accused him of sexual harassment

4 April 2018 by OC Media

(Left) Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani (Dato Parulava /OC Media)

Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani, the former head of Georgian non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion CIDA who is facing alle­ga­tions of sexual harass­ment from at least 10 women, has announced he will sue his accusers for ‘violating his and his family’s dignity’. On Tuesday, Dev­dar­i­ani held a press briefing with his lawyer where he vowed to pursue legal means to ‘protect his dignity’, as he claimed the ‘court of Facebook’ had already found him guilty. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abuse, georgia, harrassment, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, tbilisi, violence, women, women of georgia, women's rights

NGO head and women’s rights proponent ‘sexually assaulted women’

19 March 2018 by OC Media

Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani (CiDA)

The head of a prominent Georgian non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion and an outspoken supporter of women’s rights has been accused of sexual harass­ment or sexual assault by at least ten women. Alle­ga­tions against Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani, executive director of the Civil Devel­op­ment Agency (CiDA), emerged after he was nominated for a spot on the Georgian Public Broadcaster’s Board of Trustees. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: abuse, georgia, harrassment, sexual abuse, sexual harrassment, tbilisi, violence, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Voice from Tbilisi | ‘He would marry me if I withdrew the charges’

15 March 2018 by Women of Georgia

Salome Zandukeli (Nino Baidauri /Wome of Georgia)

‘It happened two years ago, on 20 February 2016. I had just started a new job. I was also teaching school children English and maths, which is why I had to commute from Kav­taradze Street to Sololaki. Late in the evenings and at about midnight I would come back home to Dighomi. That day I decided to walk from the metro home, as I didn’t want to pay for a taxi. I just thought I could walk, as I wasn’t afraid. I was born and grew up here.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: abuse, gender, georgia, rape, sexual violence, violence, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Feminists and transphobic protesters face off in Tbilisi

9 March 2018 by OC Media

Protest for the rights of trans­gen­der women. (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)

Feminist group the Georgian Women’s Movement marked Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Day on 8 March protest­ing for the rights of trans­gen­der women. They were met by a homo­pho­bic counter rally who threw eggs and chanted ‘shame’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: 8 march, georgia, lgbt, lgbt rights, queer rights, transgender people, transgender rights, women, women of georgia, women's rights

No laws, just shame: Sexual harassment in the South Caucasus

8 March 2018 by OC Media

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Women across the South Caucasus share many of the same expe­ri­ences; from Baku to Yerevan to Tbilisi, and in the smaller set­tle­ments in between, women learn from a young age to be wary of men. Inap­pro­pri­ate comments and propo­si­tions from strangers, groping, and worse are something women in the Caucasus are often forced to contend with, and while the problems seem universal, pro­tec­tions under the law are also uni­ver­sal­ly lacking. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: 8 march, Armenia, Azerbaijan, georgia, harrassment, human rights, sexual harrassment, sexual violence, women, women of armenia, women of azerbaijan, women of georgia, women's rights, women’s day

Voice from Gori | ‘There should be more women in the army’

28 February 2018 by Women of Georgia

Nino Blu­ashvili (Nino Baidauri /Women of Georgia)

Women of Georgia — Nino Bluashvili, 21

‘Although my father was in the military, we never discussed this topic and I never had any other con­nec­tion with it in the past. I rarely saw green uniforms at home, either. At first, I was enrolled at the Faculty of Human­i­ties at Tbilisi State Uni­ver­si­ty, then I switched to jour­nal­ism. I was in my first year when one of my friends began studying at the National Defence Academy. I really enjoyed the stories that my friend used to tell me about the academy.’

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: army, cadet, equality, gender inequality, georgia, gori, military academy, military service, women, women of georgia, women's rights

Voice from Pankisi | From the ‘Pankisi Crisis’ and beyond

31 January 2018 by OC Media

Luiza Mutoshvili (Luka Pertaia /OC Media)

Luiza Mutoshvili, 27, Pankisi Valley.

‘Five years ago, I started a job as a teacher at the public school in Duisi, Pankisi Valley, which com­plete­ly changed my life. The goal of my teaching programme was to overcome the language barrier in regions with ethnic minori­ties. I’m eth­ni­cal­ly Kist myself, and since Georgian is not my native language, I was well familiar with the language barrier problem.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: duisi, election, georgia, pankisi, women, women of georgia, women's rights, youth

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