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Women Oppressed in Adjara Autonomous Republic (AAR)

November 28, 2008

Tea Topuria, Tbilisi

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) has presented findings on gender equality monitoring in Adjara Autonomous Republic. GYLA finds that conditions of faced by women have not improved much in recent years. 

The monitors encountered some problems, which are reflected in  statistics showing the status of woman in governmental bodies.  Part of the problem in the monitoring is that many state bodies simply did not collect any gender equality-related data. However, GYLA still managed to obtain some figures as this data is represented as follows:

The apparatus of AAR government: women -18, men -37.

Batumi body of self-governance - Sakrebulo: women -0, men 15.

Kobuleti body of self-governance - Sakrebulo: women -2, men -6.

Keda body of self-governance – Sakrebulo: women – 5, men -14.

Shuakhevi body of self-governance – Sakrebulo: women – 2, men 17.

One of aims of monitoring was to find out who received family inheritance  – whether the daughter or the son. State bodies did not have statistics on this. However, GYLA monitors received information from other sources and it turned out that sons are mainly heirs despite the fact that the Georgian legislation does not how any priority to either gender.

There is a gender-related discrimination against the practice of underage marriages, especially towards girls.

The researchers also obtained statistics on domestic violence. According to the Board on Administrative Cases of Batumi City Court, 49 cases of domestic violence were registered from January 2007 to May 2008. In 39 cases, women were victims and in only 10 cases men suffered. The facts of psychological and physical violence are the most frequent.

The research also studied the issue of economical activity of women and men. It turned out that in 2007-2008, 11 292 men and only 5,504 women applied to Procredit Bank for minor business loans in Adjara.

The Bank of Georgia, another Georgian bank has similar figures. 726 women and 1,276 men applied to the bank to take out loans for small businesses. 

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association has written recommendations as how to solve gender related problems and will present them to the government of Georgia for consideration.

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