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“Parliament can contribute significantly towards women empowerment”, says speaker Papuashvili

Tbilisi: During his speech at the 145th Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in Rwanda, the Georgian Parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili stated that “ Parliaments can make a really significant contribution towards empowering women. Moreover, gender-sensitive parliaments have a better ability to execute and implement appropriate changes and build equal and sustainable societies.

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Tbilisi: During his speech at the 145th Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in Rwanda, the Georgian Parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili stated that “ Parliaments can make a really significant contribution towards empowering women. Moreover, gender-sensitive parliaments have a better ability to execute and implement appropriate changes and build equal and sustainable societies.

The Georgian speaker noted that it has become really important to work on gender equality issues, considering the various modern complexities like military conflicts and health crises with their social and economic effects that have a certain impact on women.

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Papuashvili stressed the moves that Georgia made towards uplifting and empowering women, stating –“Country had “strengthened” the national institutional framework and created “strong” institutional mechanisms, while also making changes to several laws: criminalizing stalking, adopting a new definition of sexual harassment, legislation outlawing forced marriage, and more.

He further said that the adoption of the law regarding the elimination of all forms of discrimination in 2014 had been a significant act in Georgia’s modern history towards equalizing genders in society, noting that country has been working towards harmonization of national legislation after ratifying the Istanbul Convention- the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence – in 2017.

The speaker emphasized the amendments introduced in Labour law in 2020, including paid maternity leaves, employer obligations towards paying equal pay to men and women and, most importantly, encouraging women to participate in politics with the introduction of mandatory gender quotas, resulting in two-times increase in elected women.

To make progress towards gender equality, parliaments must be gender-sensitive in terms of their composition, structure and day-to-day activities. The Georgian Parliament has developed a methodology to assess the gender sensitivity of the Parliament. Such evaluation helped us to define future priorities, including the issue of gender budgeting”, stated the Georgian Parliamentary speaker.

On the way to becoming member candidate in European Union, Georgia has been working jointly with Gender Equality Council and the Human rights and civil integration committee towards improving the state concept and the law on gender equality.

 

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