Growing up in Ingushetia, Zarina (not her real name), struggled with traditions that she felt restricted her. After fights with her family, a brief marriage, and a religious awakening, Zarina says she has now finally accepted herself for who she is. [Read more…]
Do Georgians understand what gender equality means?
‘Woman's labour is invisible labour.’ (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
Research by CRRC-Georgia suggests people are less likely to understand what feminism is and have a less positive view of it than the other similar terms about gender equality. [Read more…]
Voice | ‘I have a child, a house, and a business, why on earth would I wash your socks?’
Keti Tomeishvili (Nina Baidauri / Women of Georgia)
‘I was 29 when I had to emigrate and returned 14 years later. My sister was very young when she was diagnosed with an aneurysm. The doctors told her her chances of survival were only 2%, but I really wanted even this tiny chance.’ [Read more…]
Georgia’s early marriages: destinies blackened in white dresses
Sanubar and her daughter. (Gulnur Kazimova / OC Media)
Despite tightening laws against early marriages in Georgia, among the country’s ethnic Azerbaijani population, they remain common. The results of such marriages are often tragic, with young girls leaving education, becoming victims of domestic violence, or in some cases, dying. [Read more…]
Georgia outlaws sexual harassment
A 2017 ‘Take Back the Night’ rally demanding legislation against sexual harassment in Georgia. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
Georgia’s parliament has adopted a bill outlawing sexual harassment, levelling fines against those found guilty of unsolicited ‘sexual behaviour’. [Read more…]
‘I keep silent and put up with it’ — surviving domestic violence in Armenia
(daptar)
Despite a new law being passed to tackle domestic violence in 2018, women’s rights groups say not enough is being done. [Read more…]
Opinion | It’s time for North Caucasian men to stop trying to put women ‘in their place’
The most vocal criticisms of successful women in the Russian North Caucasus often come from abroad. It’s time for these ‘keyboard mujahideen’ — refugees from Chechnya, Daghestan, and Ingushetia living in western countries — to realise that following tradition and religion need not preclude an active, empowered role for women in society. [Read more…]
Voice | The bitterness of the Kvankhidatli salt — the women salt miners of Daghestan
(Magomed Gadzhidadayev/Daptar)
The women of Kvankhidatli, a village in the mountains of south-west Daghestan, are known as the people who mine salt. The women recall gathering sand by hand to dissolve the salt since the beginning of the 20th century but say the tradition is now dying out. [Read more…]
Georgia took ‘no steps’ for women’s empowerment in 2 years for EU AA
(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…]
Georgian Dream–backed sexual harassment bill put before parliament
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…]
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