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Georgia took ‘no steps’ for women’s empowerment in 2 years for EU AA

15 February 2019 by OC Media

(Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Georgia has taken no steps to enhance gender equality and equal treatment of minority groups since 2017, according to a report assessing the government’s progress in its 2017–2020 EU Asso­ci­a­tion Agenda. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: association agreement, EU, eu-georgia, georgia, women, women's rights

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

To change the system from within or without — the dilemma for feminists in ‘New Armenia’

29 November 2018 by Knar Khudoyan

Maria Kara­petyan (Anahit of Erebuni)

As more and more women choose to enter politics in rev­o­lu­tion­ary ‘New Armenia’, a debate is raging within the country’s feminist circles: how best to transform Armenia's patri­ar­chal systems — from within or without. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: Armenia, diana gasparyan, feminism, feminists, nikol pashinyan, pashinyan, velvet revolution, women, women's rights, yerevan, yerevan protests

Georgian Public Defender: Devdariani sexually harassed three women

7 November 2018 by OC Media

Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani (GPB)

The Public Defender of Georgia has found that Zviad Dev­dar­i­ani, the former head of local non-gov­ern­men­tal organ­i­sa­tion CiDA, sexually harassed three women. [Read more…]

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

Voices of Georgian emigrants — ‘They treated us like dogs’

10 October 2018 by On.ge

(/Getty images)

Since the 1990s, thousands of Georgians have left home in search of oppor­tu­ni­ties abroad, pushed out by food poverty, debts, unem­ploy­ment, or to escape violence in the family. Below are stories from three women who braved landmines, hidden con­tain­ers, and frozen seas in search for a better future in Greece. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: emigrants, emigration, georgia, greece, human rights, labour, labour rights, poverty, unemployment, women, women's rights

Voice | ‘I’m a second wife and I don’t care what you think’

27 August 2018 by Daptar

Makhachkala (Dominik K. Cagara /OC Media)

A 35-year-old woman from Makhachkala tells Daptar that becoming a second wife is a dream come true. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Voices Tagged With: daghestan, islam, makhachkala, marriage, women, women's rights

‘If she goes out — her relatives will kill her’

25 June 2018 by Daptar

(Daptar)

‘A woman should know her place. A woman should show love to us all. A woman is property, and she belongs to a man. If a woman walks around naked, or if she does not behave properly, she answers to her husband, her father, and her brother. According to our customs, if a woman goes out too freely, her relatives will kill her… That’s how it happens. A brother kills his sister, a husband kills his wife… But as President, I cannot allow them to be killed. So, women shouldn’t wear shorts.’ [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender Tagged With: abuse, chechnya, daghestan, domestic violence, femicide, harrassment, kadyrov, north caucasus, physical abuse, russia, violence, women, women's rights

Age discrimination in Armenia: why women turn to plastic surgery to find work

21 June 2018 by Armine Avetisyan

Beauty salon in Yerevan. (Nazik Arme­nakyan /Daphne)

With high levels unem­ploy­ment, Armenians are espe­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble to exploita­tion from unscrupu­lous employers. Given a lack of legal pro­tec­tions, employers are free to dis­crim­i­nate against female appli­cants based on their age or how they look. For some women, the only answer they see is to undergo cosmetic pro­ce­dures, to make them look younger in the hope of finding a job. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: age discrimination, Armenia, discrimination, labour, labour rights, sexism, women, women of armenia, women's rights, yerevan

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

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