Tamar Chugoshvili on Women’s Rights in Georgia

Tamar Chugoshvili, the First Vice Speaker and the Chair of the Gender Equality Council of the Parliament of Georgia, delivered a speech regarding Gender Equality in Georgia at the European Parliament (EP) on February, 27.

While addressing the audience, Chugoshvili strongly focused on the themes of domestic violence against women, discrimination and sexual abuse, inclusion of females in the sphere of politics, their economic encouragement and gender equality institutional mechanisms in Georgia, and spoke about the regulations in respect of sexual abuse, enforced by the Gender Equality Council and civil society.

The government official also accentuated the reforms implemented in the country, aimed at eradication of violence and amelioration of the preventive mechanisms. She mentioned the Human Rights Department launched by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

Tamar Chugoshvili presented the examples of women involvement in politics in Georgia, by referring to the recent Presidential elections, where Salome Zurabishvili obtained success and became the first female president of the country, and stated that 15% MPs in the Georgian Parliament are women, noting that the index is relatively low.

Along with the situation in the modern Georgia, the Vice Speaker of the Parliament also recalled facts from the history of Georgia, and exemplified the case of the establishment of the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia 100 years ago, when 5 women were elected as its members.

By Ketevan Kvaratskheliya

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