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16-day campaign against gender-based violence in Gori

November 30, 2016
 
Lado Bitchashvili, Shida Kartli 

„Men are allowed to do everything,” “a woman shall put up with everything”, “gender is women’s issue,” – the participants of the demonstration wrote these and other wide-spread stereotypes in Georgia on the special banners in the Gori center.

The demonstration was organization in the frame of the international 16-day campaign against gender-based violence – “No to Gender Stereotypes”.
Representative of the Gori Gender Media Center Natia Omadze said the stereotypes written on the banner demonstrate the problems in the field of gender equality. “Gender stereotypes are directly connected with gender equality, and discrimination of the women. We should change our mentality and condemn those stereotypes to encourage life in equal environment.”

In the frame of the weekly campaign against gender-based violence the head of the organization Woman and Development Pati Bukhrikidze held meeting in the Gori Democratic Engagement Center, where participants spoke about the problems of women’s engagement in public life and about gender-equality. 

In the frame of the weekly campaign, Lamara Shakulashvili, representative of the Shida Kartli regional committee of the Anti-Violence Network of Georgia, organized information action and gave out brochures to the population. Shakulashvili believes gender inequality is originated from the treatment of women in their families and there are families where women become victims of violence. 

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