ShidaKartli. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) has launched a project together with the "UN Women's organization", which aims to promote better coverage of problems of women living in the IDP compact settlements and to advocate their rights. This very project was presented to the young IDP women in Gori in the office of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association. Local NGOs have informed the journalists about problems existing in the compact settlements encountered by IDP women. Conducted studies illustrate that the number of victims of domestic violence in the IDP settlements is steadily increasing, and in addition IDP women are not much aware of their own rights. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting has created a network of citizen journalists, which will cover the women's problems. The Abkhazian, Ossetian and Georgian journalists already post materials on the web page (women-peace.net) set up within the project framework. The project aims to unite more women around the issues of peace and the women's rights.

Source: media.ge