Tbilisi. The Public Defender of Georgia responds to the information spread by the media on August 26, 2016, according to which, following the meeting in Keda Municipality Council the women were asked to leave the session hall.

''The Public Defender notes that the women inclusion in the political life is a necessary precondition for the development of a democratic state; accordingly, the state should contribute to carrying out this task. The similar attitude strengthens and encourages a negative stereotype in relation to the women participation in the social and the political life of this country, poses a threat that in the future they will be more subjected to the discrimination due to their sex'', is noted in the statement.

Source: ombudsman.ge