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On 8 and 9 September, the Georgian Software Testing Qualifications Board (GeoSTQB) marked International Tester’s Day in Tbilisi. A key focus of the two-day programme was breaking down barriers for women and girls in tech and promoting their participation and career development in the sector.
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Sixty-five-year-old Eleonora Gurchiani has been internally displaced twice: first in 1992, when the war in Abkhazia, Georgia began, and Russia-Georgia war in 2008, when, after returning to her home village, she was once more forced to flee. Today, she lives with her mother and brother in the village of Tsintskaro, in Tetritskaro Municipality.
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Forty-six-year-old Eka Gogatishvili lives with her husband and two children in the village of Perevi in Sachkhere Municipality, near the dividing line. A teacher by training, she tutors schoolchildren in history.
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UN Women continues to support women farmers by helping them access new and innovative knowledge and creating opportunities to exchange experiences and build valuable connections.
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Tiko Lagvilava, a young peacebuilder from Georgia and a member of the Network of Women and Youth Peace Ambassadors, participated in the Global Strategic Dialogue “From Normative Progress to Implementation Impact”, which took place in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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UN Women joined the Europe Day celebrations in Batumi on 11 July with a focus on Georgian women, highlighting the important role they have played throughout history and continue to play today.
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UN Women continues to raise awareness among rural women regarding disaster risks and climate change, sharing relevant knowledge and practical skills with them.
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From the stage of the ZEG Storytelling Festival, an annual international event held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 19 to 21 June, women’s voices rang out loud and clear. The festival featured renowned writers, artists, journalists, and thinkers from around the world to share stories that matter on women’s rights and gender equality. Here are our key insights from this year’s ZEG storytelling festival.
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UN Women continues to support companies in the South Caucasus that are signatories to the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), providing them with a platform for sharing best practices and experiences.
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Feminist leadership is about creating societies where equality, justice and inclusion are shared values. Guided by this vision and a shared commitment to advancing gender equality, 25 women came together for five days to participate in the first UN Women Leadership Academy in Georgia.
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The gender pay gap remains a significant challenge in Georgia. According to 2024 data, the country’s unadjusted monthly gender pay gap stands at 32 per cent. At the same time, every second person believes that men earn more than women because they are the main breadwinners in their families.
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UN Women is supporting women across Georgia’s regions to strengthen their financial literacy, entrepreneurial skills and economic resilience. Nearly 500 women have participated in trainings on financial literacy and entrepreneurship, gaining practical knowledge on business planning, budgeting, market analysis and informed financial decision-making.
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The books were donated to Tsintskaro Library as part of a community initiative—through the efforts of local women who participated in the localization of the Women, Peace and Security agenda by UN Women.
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Twice a week, Shorena Metreveli, a resident of Kvemo Nikozi, opens the gate to her neighbour Elza Batsikadze’s property and, even when Elza is not at home, uses a small mill installed in the yard to grind her corn free of charge.
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UN Women is helping women and girls across Georgia’s regions access information about State-run services and municipal programmes addressing violence against women and domestic violence. Nearly 800 women have participated in awareness-raising trainings, including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities, women living in high-mountainous communities, and those residing in areas adjacent to the dividing line. Among the training recipients was Nana Tkabladze, 29, who lives in an IDP settlement in the city of Khoni.
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On 9 May, UN Women participated in the annual event dedicated to Europe Day. This year once again, the Expo Georgia exhibition centre hosted this important occasion.
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Nino Chibchiuri, a 41-year-old journalist, lives with her family in the city of Gori, in the Shida Kartli region. She is the founder and director of the organizations Neo TV and “Georgian Media Group” as well as the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Liakhvis Kheoba” (Liakhvi Valley). Through various platforms, she actively covers women’s issues.
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To mark International Girls in ICT Day, on 29 and 30 April, Tbilisi hosted the first international conference “Tech Her Way: From Learning to Leading in Tech”, organized by UN Women and supported by the Government of Denmark.
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The warnings that literature offers, the way it reflects the global backsliding on women’s rights, and the links between fiction and reality—these were the topics of the panel discussion “Back to the Future: Patriarchal Revenge in Contemporary Literature”, organized by UN Women.
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UN Women is helping women and girls across Georgia’s regions access information about State-run services and municipal programmes addressing violence against women and domestic violence. Through awareness-raising trainings, nearly 800 women, including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities, women living in high-mountainous communities, and those residing in areas adjacent to the dividing line, strengthened their understanding of available support and referral mechanisms.