The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality
What is the official statistics in the country in terms of political participation of women, why women are not on responsible positions, how to promote their political participation - guests of the TV program, members of Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council (GAC) spoke about the past political way, the difficulties, positive sides, fruitful cooperation of GAC and local government, in particular - to increase women participation.
The conversation touched the extraordinary elections to be held in the Ozurgeti. In the village Nasakirali female candidate is running elections, representing political party "Georgian Dream".
According to the position of the program guests, it is not easy to be a majoritarian candidate, but inclusion of women is very interesting and important. Women are more sensitive about social issues.
"If we say that women should be presented in politics, we must give a chance to the presented women - a teacher and destroy the myth that the Muslim community will not choose a woman."
First bulletin of the year summarized the results of the activities in frames of the project “Strengthening of Women’s Rights in Western Georgia”.
Despite of New Year days, all activities were held, concrete changes were achieved and lives of several women were improved.
The bulletin tells about it.
Unsolved conflicts and their influence on women, concrete cases and the problems, being unsolved for years – documentary film of the fund “Sukhumi” underlines importance of women involvement in official negotiations of Georgian – Abkhazian conflict positive transformation.
The characters of the film are the women of conflict zone and border region, who share their pain to the audience. The state officials also speak about necessity of activities, which will somehow make easy the condition of population residing there. The women are more sensitive towards these issues.
On December 30, in the office of the fund “Sukhumi”, the chairperson of the organization awarded the journalists, who won the competition, organized by the fund for regional media journalists - “Journalists – for promotion of non-violent awareness”.
Social responsibility of regional media journalists deserves high evaluation, especially in publicizing such sensitive issue, as gender violence.
Journalists expressed gratitude for the fact that they are considered as reliable partners and their work is appreciated.