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Tbilisi. An organization “Sapari” publishes a study: Human rights defenders needs assessment in Georgia.

“Human rights defenders play an important role in the democratization process and often experience violence, imprisonment, torture, defamation, expulsion from workspace, restriction of freedom of movement, while in certain countries death and enforced disappearance. They confront numerous risks and dangers in recent years. Often threats posed to human rights defenders are not accidental; in most cases, violent attack is a deliberate and well-planned response to their activity. These challenges require introduction of comprehensive and dynamic strategies for security in the daily work of human rights defenders. It is no longer sufficient to give a simple piece of advice to human rights defenders “to take care of themselves”. Good management of their security and a specific strategy is needed”.

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Source: sapari.ge

Tbilisi. According to the UN Women Geogia the signatory companies of Women’s Empowerment Principles teamed up to engage girls in technology.

“Georgian-American University GAU, Kant’s Academy and Geolab have launched WE-Tech - a new 6-months educational platform for women. Combining 4 main educational components, the program will help participants develop technological and entrepreneurial skills”.

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Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 15:30, you can watch a program “Samastsavleblo”, which will feature topics of interest to teachers, schoolchildren, and parents on Teleskola, the General Education Reform page, and Kentsero.

The project is the result of cooperation among the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, First Channel, Teleskola, and Kentsero, an online educational platform.

“What qualities should a teacher have and how to increase the motivation of a schoolchild? How important is family involvement in the education of a child? How does the system of modern standards for evaluation and the best practice in distance learning look like? Experts in education and current teachers will talk about these and other issues in “Samastsavleblo”.

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Source: The website of the organization on a social network

Tbilisi. With the financial support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation, Mariam Natroshvili collected oral stories of people becoming homeless and published them in a book.

“It is one step, one story from a roof over your head to homelessness in Georgia. Some of the heroes of stories gathered here once had a house, but today they live in a shelter. We have collected these stories there. Shelters scattered on the outskirts of the city enclose a lot of different and, at the same time, similar adventures”.

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Source: The website of the Open Society Georgia Foundation on a social network

On November 11, 2021, the International Day of Social Entrepreneurship, there was held a multi-actor meeting in an online format on “Enabling environment for social entrepreneurship in Georgia - current situation and perspectives”...

The meeting was organized by the Civil Society Institute (CSI) in collaboration with partner organizations and Mariam Lashkhi, Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia.

The main purpose of the event was to establish a platform for cooperation among actors in the field in order to facilitate a supportive enabling environment for social entrepreneurship. About 50 representatives of the public, civil, and private sectors were invited to the meeting to discuss these issues.

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The project - “Advancing Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable and Inclusive Society” is implemented by the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) with the support of the European Union and “Bread for the World”. Partners of the project are Social Enterprise Alliance Georgia (SEA), Civil Society Institute (CSI), Georgian Civil Development Association (GCDA), Democratic Development Union of Georgia (DDUG), European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA), and LEPL Youth Agency.