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💬 “I didn’t want to study at faculties that are popular. That’s how I discovered winemaking and I fell in love with it so much that I made it my main profession and one of my sources of income,” says Tamar Khvedelidze.

#WomenfromRegions #Georgia

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🟠 Gulara Mardanova is from the village of Iormughanlo in the Kakheti region. She is a farmer and cattle breeder, so she leads a nomadic life and rarely visits her home, where there are no pastures.

#WomenfromRegions #Georgia

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🟢 We interviewed 74-year-old Laura Kutchukhidze at her home in Kvareli. She joked, “I want to be famous for starting a business at the age of 74,” sharing her smile.

#WomenfromRegions #Georgia

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📝 To interview Aksana Miskariani, we traveled to Marneuli, a municipality mostly populated by ethnic minorities, mainly Azerbaijani Georgians.

#Georgia #EthnicMinorities #WomenfromRegions

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🔴 Women enter sex work for many reasons. Often it’s economic hardship — more women live in poverty, and most sex workers worldwide are women. In some cases, it’s voluntary, offering higher wages than other work.

#SexWork #WomensRights #LaborRights

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🛒 “We don’t have the right to get sick and die, otherwise our families will be left without food,” says a respondent from the 2018 survey Gender Aspects of the Informal Economy: Women Street Vendors in Tbilisi.

#WorkersRights #Georgia #StreetVendors

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🎨 “First I came out as queer, then as an artist, then as a Georgian queer artist, and that’s when these terrible laws came into effect,” says Marika Kochiashvili, photographer & sculptor living in London.

#LGBTQ #Georgia #QueerArtists

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📚 Low pay, busy schedules, emotional exhaustion, formal and informal obligations, and systemic problems — these are the challenges that teachers employed in various schools in Georgia face today.

#Teachers #Education #Georgia

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🌿 Venera Chotalishvili, 90, from Tsinandali, is an economist by profession. Today she tends her garden and home—and despite her children’s wishes, she refuses to leave for Tbilisi.
#Georgia #Women #WomenfromRegions

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🟣 Nurses face inadequate pay, overtime, heavy workloads and unsafe nurse to patient ratios. These long-standing problems drive many to leave their profession or even their country.

#Nurses #HealthcareWorkers

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💡 Today, Indigo is among those media outlets that are threatened with extinction due to the repressive policies of the #GeorgianDream, although they continue to fight for freedom of speech.

#Thelightsmuststayon

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⭕️ Overtime, vacation rights, compensation, occupational diseases, probation, food, health insurance—just some of the challenges nannies (and women in domestic work overall) face every day.

#DomesticWorkers #Nannies #WorkersRights #WomensRights

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⭕️ Judge Nino Sakhelashvili sentenced Mzia Amaglobeli to 2 years in prison.

Read Amaglobeli's closing statement to the court 👇

#FreeMzia

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❗ Judge Nino Sakhelashvili sentenced Maia Amaghlobeli, the founder and director of @Batumelebi_ge and @netgazeti to 2 years in prison.

🔻 Sakhelashvili reclassified Amaglhobeli's charges which means that her charges of assaulting a police officer were dropped.

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⭕️ The title may seem provocative but parallels between these two parties are real. Despite differing eras and ideologies, their narratives, treatment of opponents, and tactics of denial and discrediting show striking similarities.

#GeorgianDream

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🏳️‍🌈 May 17 is a day of significance for Georgia’s queer community — but one marked by struggle. Both the Orthodox Church and Georgian Dream have played key roles in attempting to erase or overshadow its meaning.

#QueerGeorgia #Pride2025

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Under immense pressure, these female journalists exemplify courage, integrity, and an unyielding commitment to the truth.

#Journalism #PressFreedom #MziaAmaghlobeli

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✊We spoke with Tamar Kuratishvili—an activist whose resistance didn’t begin or end with the March 28 arrest—about #activism, the anti-occupation movement, and forms of #protest.

#GeorgiaProtests

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🚨 Physical violence, swearing, arrest, stripping, threats of rape — these are the attitudes that are used as weapons of political battle against #women in #Georgia.

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⭕️Learn the stories of those people who tell of inappropriate, inhumane, and degrading treatment by law enforcement officers in Georgia:

#GeorgiaProtests #Georgia

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