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Protection of Women's Rights

Women’s Rights - set up group of lawyers, sociologist, psychologists, statistics, which work on protection women’s and children rights Women’sCenter is closely working and is a sisterhood of WAVE (Women Against Violence in Europe, Vienna, Austria); Austrian Women Shelter (Vienna), Leeds Metropolitan University (Research Center on violence, abuse and gender relations, Leeds, UK), University of North London (Child and woman abuse studies unit, UK), CASA (Children’s voice in court, Georgia, USA).

 

From 1998 representative of Women’s Center is included in the program of “Human Rights Advanced Leadership Training for Women” (USA). Our organization is the member of the Network, which organise by National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and work on the project “Women’s Leadership in pre-election period.” Also we are connected with ODIHR and OSCE and work on the problems of trafficking women. “Investigation of Women’s rights is Georgia”, which questioned 1251 women in 9 regions of Georgia and 4 cities. Objectives to carry out the investigation and statistical confirmation about Women’s Rights throughout whole Georgia on the basis of the social questioning. (Used Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences by Alan Agresti USA) Based on this study findings, we can conclude, that despite the discrimination and violation of women’s rights, major part of Georgian women have determination minded orientation and even are partly active in community and social life.

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82% percent of women did not know that Georgian legislation protects their rights, that is the reason of women’s powerlessness. In order to establish equality between men and women, in all aspects of life, it is necessary to redevelop the value and dignity of women and widely implement their human rights.(UNICEF) “Protection of women’s rights educational program”, on the basis of which brochures on the following topics were printed and distributed:- Social life, Reproductive life, Reproductive rights , Human rights, Sexuality, Domestic Violence ,What is Gender , Sexually transmitted diseases (STD), Protection of women’s rights in Georgia by active legislation, Adolescence maternity rights, Careers & Modern women , Women rights in the family.

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Deliver lectures about women’s rights.(Global Fund for Women – USA) “Georgian Legislation in Practice. “The goal of the project is to review the existing laws concerning women’s rights, publish brochures where are included all laws defining the solution of women’s problems and distributed them appropriately. That action makes laws know for women. In addition, we conducted two 5-days training in Tbilisi and Rustavi, which raised great interest from population. Besides, in 58 organisations throughout all Georgian regions delivered micro-lectures, with movies pertaining to the problems of women-trafficking and flouting of labour rights of women going to working abroad. Publishing and distributed brochures will be on the following topics: Rights and responsibilities of spouses; Women’s rights in the family;Pregnancy and birth giving; Reproductive rights; Women’s right at work; Breaking the family and consequences; Sexual. Harassment (American Bar Association) “Emergency Phone for Abused Women “The aim of the program was the establishment of first hot-line service, and victims rendered the consultation together with all kind of relevant services through juridical, medical staff. Telephone-trainers consult and protect the women's rights.( Mama-Cash)

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"Trafficking in Women ". Objective to investigate the problem of Trafficking in women from Georgia,carry out the social questioning among the suppositional groups of heightened risk in Georgia; analyse the Georgian legislation., collect the materials of research on problem in other countries; give the information to the women from group heightened risk and to public of Georgia. The analysis show the problem of trafficking in Georgia is existing in an obscured form.(OSI) Establishment of Network of Women’s Rights in region of Georgia Goals-create network of women’s right in the regions Kakheti, Guria, Shida- Kartly of Georgia. To reach this target, we plan though seminar-training in the regional centers and for the participants to establish local branches. (ABA)

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Awareness and Equality against Trafficking Women. We make action to protect the potential victims through the distribution of information on sex-tourism. There were issued the brochures (1000 copies), which were disseminated at the meetings with the representatives of different regions and social groups; also at the meetings arranged by other non-governmental organizations. At the same time there were prepared the liflets (40000 copies) containing the mail addresses and contact telephone numbers of the residences of the ambassador of Georgia in different States, to be disseminated at the airports and other places which are closed to the State margins. (OSI)

 

"Emergency Phone for Abused Women"

"Emergency Phone for Abused Women "The aim of the program was the establishment of first hot-line service, and victimsrenderd the consultation together with all kind of revelant services through juridical, medical staff. Telephone-trainers consult and protect the women's rights. (Mama-Cash)

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"Awareness and Equality against Trafficking in Women". We make action to protect the potential victims thought the distribution of information on sex-tourism. There were issued the brochures (1000 copies), which were desseminated at the meeting with the representatives of different regions and social groups; also at the meeting arranged by other non-government organizations in the regions. (Mama-Cash)


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