Georgia is in second place in Eastern Europe after Moldova for the early marriage of girls. It is followed by Turkey and Tajikistan.
As an exception, the marriage of a person who has reached the age of 16 was allowed by her consent and only with the consent of the court in the presence of such reasons as pregnancy. Since January 2017, the marriage of persons under the age of 18 has been completely prohibited by law.
These and other issues were aired in the informational bulletin of the fund "Sukhumi". The electronic version of the newsletter is published within the framework of the project "Strengthening of Women's Rights in Western Georgia".
Gender stereotypes – dominant view about the qualities and roles of women and men - are one of the topical issues at the meetings of the fund “Sukhumi”. That is why the February issue of the newsletter was dedicated to it.
The bulletin explains why we are interested in this topic, gives examples and presents tips on how to deal with stereotypes. As psychologists say, gradually, step by step!
The electronic version of the newsletter is published within the framework of the project "Strengthening of Women's Rights in Western Georgia".
Women migration is a question that concerns everyone in Georgia equally, since there is no family whose member or loved one is not away.
There are many stories on this issue, some with a good ending, some with a bad ending. Statistically, of the people who were in the migration, 67% are women. Although, without it, it is clear that the leakage of women abroad over the past years has increased even more.
The bulletins contain several stories, the issue of responsibility of family members and society.
The electronic version of the bulletin of the Fund "Sukhumi" is published in the framework of the project "Strengthening of women's rights in Western Georgia" and is distributed at different meetings.
During the whole year there was issued a monthly electronic informational bulletin, and at the end of the year there was printed the reporting journal “Women’s Voice”. It summarized a year of the project “Strengthening of women’s rights in Western Georgia”. The journal tells about activities of the fund “Sukhumi” – advocacy and solution of the problems of women, work of the forum-theatre, initiatives of the youth clubs, campaign of “16 active days against gender violence”. Of course changes in lives of women and society.
The conflict of generations is one of the topical issues at the meetings of the fund “Sukhumi”. That is why it became the topic of the November bulletin.
"I do not understand when he changed. She does not hear me at all. I do not know how to cope with it. I do everything, but he still does not obey," - mothers say.
In the process of education there are no standard recipes that can be useful to everyone. Although, there are approaches that should be envisaged for many mothers. The bulletins say exactly about this - the test and advice are presented.
The electronic version of the bulletin of the Fund "Sukhumi" is published in the framework of the project "Strengthening of Women's Rights in Western Georgia".
The joint project "Cooperation with local government – prevention of domestic violence and protection of victims" funded by Zugdidi Municipality Gamgeoba and co-financed by the fund "Sukhumi" was carried out. The report of research “For prevention of domestic violence” was published in frames of the project.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
This publication, more than any other, is a product of team effort.
We worked together, with pleasure and interest. Talking about your own positive results naturally causes such feelings.
In 2013-2016 Fund “Sukhumi” implemented a very challenging, important and ambitious project “Gender Advisory Councils – increasing women’s role in social changes of regions”. The project turned out to be more successful than expected - establishing Gender Advisory Councils in Kutaisi, Ozurgeti and Senaki helped increase women’s role and also brought some social changes to regions.
Moreover, state legislation now makes provisions for establishing gender councils.
How did we start? What did we do? How did we achieve our goals? The book tries to answer all these questions.
In this book we will tell you about the roads we took, our rich three-year experience, changes that we witnessed at the end of the project, the impact on society, government agencies and media, the people who contributed to these changes.
The eighth issue of informational bulletin was published by the fund “Sukhumi”. It reflects the active work of the Women Support Centers, in frames of the project “Strengthening of Women’s Rights in Western georgia”. Informational-consultative meetings with the women and youth, advocacy of local problems in cooperation with the local government and other interesting issues
Women's Support Centres, with the financial support of the Fund "Sukhumi" in June and July have carried out independent projects. The essence of these projects and gained results were recorded in the seventh issue of the newsletter. In addition, it tells about the information and consultation meetings, advocated problems, working with victims of violence – briefly, about everything that took place in July in the framework of the project "Strengthening of Women's Rights in the Western Georgia."
