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Azerbaijani Georgian teacher made to apologise for protesting bride kidnapping

by OC Media

•3 min read

An ethnic Azerbaijani teacher in southeast Georgia’s Kvemo Kartli Region has been made to publicly apologise after reporting the kidnapping of one of his former students and criticising Georgia’s Azerbaijani community for endorsing bride kidnapping. Hamid Sadikh, a geography teacher in the village of Tezekendi in Gardabani Municipality, was widely criticised by other residents of the village after he made a Facebook post on 9 October criticising the incident. ‘One of my students, whom I u

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Georgia’s feminists face an uphill battle for equality

by Dato Parulava

•7 min read

Despite a rise in the awareness of women’s rights in Georgia, feminist activists have found themselves up against a deeply-rooted culture that hinders further progress. Early marriages, a lack of recognition of the need for more female decision-makers, and impassivity towards women’s issues in the male-dominated parliament create a compounding, socially-driven force that stands on the way of gender equality. Natia was only 17 when she became a bride. A 25-year-old man kidnapped her twice

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Girl abducted for marriage returned home in southern Georgia

by OC Media

•2 min read

A 20-year-old girl abducted for marriage has been returned to her parents’ house. The girl was abducted from the courtyard of her house in a village in Bolnisi Municipality, in Georgia’s southern Kvemo Kartli Region, on 10 January. An investigation has been launched for ‘illegal deprivation of liberty’, which is punishable by up to four years in prison. The alleged abductor has been identified, according to local community radio station Radio Marneuli, which covers Kvemo Kartli regio

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Voice from Adjara | ‘No one asked why I was crying’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

Women of Georgia — Tamta Abuselidze, 27 ‘I heard many times of women’s abductions when I was living in the village. And of course, I never thought that it was a good thing, but I also didn’t know it was illegal. They never taught us anything about it at school, there was no literature about it.’ Women in Georgia very often lack a voice of their own. Their opinions, feelings, dreams, aspirations, and achievements can be conveyed by others, often the men around them. The Women in Geo

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‘I was fourteen when I was kidnapped’

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•7 min read

‘I was fourteen when I was kidnapped. I lived in a village with my parents, two brothers and my elder sister. I was a teenager by then, but mentally still a child. I liked playing naughty games: climbing trees, jumping from heights, fighting devilishly.’ ‘I got a lot of attention because of the colour of my eyes, they said I was beautiful. My mum and aunt often scolded me for my childish antics, and would tell me I was already old. I won’t say I was completely indifferent to the opposite se

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[Voice from Chechnya] Twenty years with a kidnapper

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

‘My family was destroyed together with what used to be Chechnya. My husband and I argued endlessly’. Love, abduction, war, and divorce — a Chechen woman told her story to Daptar. ‘My father was a shepherd in the Rostov Oblast. We were born there, all eight siblings. I had a boyfriend in high school. I thought only about him and he — about me. I promised to marry him, but first I wanted to graduate from the faculty of law. He agreed. We promised each other that we would marry only each ot

A protest in Tbilisi in April 2017 against early marriages. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media.

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Protests in Tbilisi after girl, 17, kidnapped in Marneuli

by OC Media

•3 min read

Human rights activists gathered on 30 April in front of the Prosecutor’s Office in Tbilisi, to condemn the frequency of early and forced marriages in Georgia. Protesters condemned the government’s ‘sick policy’ towards forced and early marriages in Georgia, saying that the authorities are tolerant of the abuse. The protests came after on 28 April, a man allegedly kidnapped a 17-year-old girl who was on her way to school. The kidnapping took place in Marneuli, in the southern Georgian region