Georgia
Healthcare now and then: Why no one wants to be a nurse anymore

In the second and last part of this series, Sopiko Japaridze focuses on the conditions of nurses and other healthcare stuff in recent times.

Healthcare now and then: Soviet Georgia to the present

Japaridze compares and contrasts her experience with the three different healthcare models in Soviet Georgia, present day Georgia, and the US.

Georgia Social Workers
Social security workers in Georgia win pay rise after five days of historic strike  

Almost half of all the social security workers in Georgia were on strike to secure adequate pay and better living conditions 

Nurses protest in Tbilisi for better pay and working conditions

Nurses in Georgia are building resistance to harmful government policies, and organized a protest in Tbilisi supported by trade unions

Far-right mob attack LGBT activists and journalists ahead of Tbilisi pride March

Following violent attacks by far-right groups against LGBT activists and journalists, the organizers called off the March of Dignity scheduled on July 5. Activists have alleged that the state is supporting the attackers

Interview Temur Pipia-Georgia
“Georgia should return to the socialist path of development”

Temur Pipia, leader of the Unified Communist Party of Georgia, talks on the legal proceedings against him, the campaign against the left in the country and the challenges before communists

State repression of communists Georgia
Persecution of Georgian communist leader draws widespread condemnation

Temur Pipia, leader of the Unified Communist Party of Georgia, was detained by the Georgian police while returning from Russia. The state authorities have registered a case against him invoking the 2011 Freedom Charter

Homophobia in Georgia
Homophobic group attempts to disrupt movie screening in Georgia

The critically acclaimed film is based on gay love. Right-wing groups and conservatives from the Orthodox Church have consistently harassed the LGBT community in Georgia

LGBTQ protests Georgia
LGBTQ groups in Georgia protest homophobic violence and government’s inaction

Conservative homophobic groups in Georgia have been continuously threatening the LGBTQ groups and pressuring them to backtrack from organizing the country’s first ever pride parade