Uniting Women Councillors for Better Local Governance
2013-05-20
Tbilisi, Georgia, 180 women councillors from all regions of Georgia will get together to establish the Women Councillors’ Forum |
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Georgia Debates Ending Family-to-Family Adoptions
2013-05-14
In Georgia, where motherhood is seen as a woman’s chief duty, a family without children has long been considered a tiny tragedy |
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Georgians Wrestle With Abortion Issue As Gender Imbalance Grows
Temur Kiguradze and Robert Coalson
2013-05-10
Georgia faces a serious and growing demographic problem. According to the UN, the ratio of newborn boys to girls in 1991 was 105 to 100. By 2000, it was nearly 110 to 100. And in 2011, it was almost 114 to 100 |
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Georgian Lawmakers To Debate Abortion Ban After Patriarch's Plea
2013-05-07
Georgia's parliament is expected to begin debating a ban on abortion after the Georgian Orthodox Church's patriarch called for the procedure to be made illegal |
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Meeting of the UN Gender Theme Group
2013-05-02
UN held a Gender Theme Meeting in Tbilisi that was devoted to key challenges for LGBT activism in Georgia |
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Civil society trained in monitoring UNSCR 1325 in Armenia
2013-04-24
22 representatives from civil society in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh gathered in Yerevan, Armenia for a training on civil society monitoring of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 |
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Interview: Author Says Sex-Selection Crisis In South Caucasus 'Just As Bad As In China'
2013-04-03
Since around 2000, sex-selective abortion has taken off in the Caucasus countries -- in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia -- also in parts of the Balkans |
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Women Soldiers Fight for the Right to Fight Like Men
Molly Corso
2013-03-20
Georgia does not prohibit women from combat, but the military recruitment process makes it difficult for women to receive the training and experience necessary to gain senior ranks and assignment in the field |
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Honoring Women’s Day in Georgia
Meghan Johnson
2013-03-14
I live in a country that honors everything feminine. Men speak about their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters as saints and angels..... |
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