Tbilisi. The Public Defender of Georgia echoes the requirement established by the Borjomi municipality program No2 for the newly married couples, which says that the husband must be registered in the town of Borjomi in order the couple to get monetary assistance.

''The Public Defender notes that similar requirement of the municipality emphasizes the dominance of men in the family and further strengthens the stereotypes about the roles of women and men in the society.

Based on the above, the Public Defender calls on the Borjomi municipality to cancel its discriminatory requirement concerning the place of men’s registration in the program intended for the newly married couples and to promote gender equality in the region through its future activities'', is noted in the statement.

Source: www.ombudsman.ge