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Editorial | Georgia’s government needs to act to protect workers

by OC Media

•2 min read

The latest death of a construction worker in Georgia demonstrates that the government must stand up for the rights and lives of its citizens. With labour reforms on what seems like indefinite hold, the government now needs to act. Twenty-six-year-old Jarji Janjalashvili died on 9 February after falling from the fifth floor of the construction site in Tbilisi he was working on. This tragic accident is far from unique in Georgia, which deregulated the labour market in the mid-2000s. Whil

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Georgia’s constitutional changes explained

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•3 min read

Georgia’s government is planning sweeping changes to the country’s constitution. According to their proposals the amendments would change the way the president is elected and deprive him of certain powers, define marriage as a ‘union between a man and a woman’, abolish single-member voting constituencies, and ‘guarantee the social rights of its citizens’. The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party has started finalising the long-intended changes to the constitution, as they hold the absolute majo