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Azerbaijan

Divorce in Azerbaijan: women’s empowerment or stigma?

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Increased rates of divorce have become a topic of a public debate in Azerbaijan. Many see the reason in a changing place of women in society. Shafiga, 25, got acquainted with her future husband through her relatives. A year after the wedding, they had a son, and for several years she was sure that she had an absolutely happy family. But at some point her husband openly declared that he had another woman, with whom he had a religious marriage, and he would share his time between the two

Georgia

Georgian rights groups back civil partnerships for same-sex couples

by OC Media

•2 min read

Several prominent civil society organisations in Georgia have come out in support of civil partnerships for same-sex couples, while the government is attempting to amend the constitution to explicitly define marriage as a union between a woman and a man. The government has been discussing constitutional amendments to outlaw same-sex marriage for several years; this despite same-sex marriage already being expressly forbidden under Georgian law. While a draft constitutional amendment has be