Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, awarded Baia Pataraia the Medal of Honor during a March 8 celebration honoring the International Women’s Day at the President’s residence. Baia Pataraia was recognized for her extraordinary personal commitment to advancing women’s rights, ...
For almost fourteen years, The Pixel Project has worked at the intersection of social media, pop culture, the arts, journalism, activism, and new technologies to shine a light on the the many ways violence against women (VAW) affects the lives ...
This policy brief focuses on the problem of regulations and implementation of the articles in regarding sex crimes. The rape legislation in Georgia is discriminatory, inadequate, and based on inherent gender stereotyping, which not only restricts the prosecution of rape ...
Concerned that femicide was becoming the social norm in Georgia, Baia Pataraia mobilised a Women’s movement against domestic violence and the murder of women that has grown to 3000 activists on Facebook. HRHF spoke to the chair of Human Rights ...
The Need for a State Strategy on Women’s Economic Empowerment ...
This policy brief covers a period of January-November, 2017 Authors: Baia Pataraia on behalf of the union “Sapari”. Peer review by Dr. Tobias Schumacher Introduction The EU-Georgia Association Agenda for 2014-2016 provides a list of priorities for joint work and ...
Today, the conference on “Legal aid and strategic litigation on cases regarding violence against women: Existing practices and challenges” was conducted in Radisson Blue Hotel. The conference was organized by “Sapari” and was supported by the United States Agency for ...
In Kuwait, a symposium (Advocacy and Politics, Where Do They Fulfill?) organized by the Abolish 153 Campaign was held. The topic of it was violence against women. Human Rights activists and Political activists from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Georgia took ...
Front Line Defenders – This is the name of an international organization that protects human rights defenders around the world. Every two years, the organization convenes a conference called Dublin Platform. At the conference over a hundred human rights defenders ...
Babutsa Pataraia, Georgia_GB_Barriers remedies and good practices.pdf ...
A conference “Equality Policy and Key Challenges in Georgia” was held at Rooms Hotel Tbilisi on April 21, 2017. The conference was organized by Open Society Georgia Foundation (OSGF) and it was held in partnership with the Coalition for Equality. ...
The European Parliament hosted the conference “The implementation of Eastern Partnership and Association commitments in the fight against anti-discrimination policies, justice and corruption”. ...
Today, in ‘Fabrica’ the organization held a presentation of the legislative proposal and research related to the problem of sexual harassment. ...
On February 9, the head of Sapari Baia Pataraia presented a study in the Council of Europe under the title “Barriers, Means/ ways and Best Practices of Women’s Access to Justice”. The study focuses on socio-cultural, ...
