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Esma Gumberidze
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Esma is a disability rights campaigner who chairs the Platform for New Opportunities and sits on the board of the Georgian Network of Women with Disabilities. She has consulted on and contributed to
Opinion | Women with disabilities have the same right to a private life as anyone else
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Opinion | Women with disabilities have the same right to a private life as anyone else

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In Georgia, the social stigmas around disabilities combine with patriarchal attitudes in destructive ways. Ignorance, compounded by a lack of support services to help women with disabilities live independently means many women can only dream of having a private life. Women with disabilities should be free from violence, discrimination, abuse, and harassment. They have the right to decide where, and with whom to live.  They shall be free from any interference and surveillance in their corre