Tbilisi: The Prominent NGO (Non Governmnental Organisaaion) of Georgia WIC (Women Informtion Centre) have organised a second workshop in Kakheti region. The workshop was held to raise the awareness about the gender misinformation and other associated issues.
The Non Governmnental Organisation is working for a long time to protect the rights of women. This time organisation have come with concept of seminar for the women and young people who belong to conflict affected areas of country.
As mentioned above, the conflict-affected women and young people from the six regions of Georgia attended the workshop . Two Gender issues experts namely Mamuka Gachechiladze and Lela Khomeriki lead the workshop and provide the inforamtion to attendees.
The misinformation, gender misinformation, increasing flows of false information, identifying fake news were some of the issues raised during the two-day session with aims to raise awareness among women and youth members of the these conflict affectes areas.
At the same time the attendee of event will receive information on human rights with special focus on the women’s rights and gender equality. The workshop also provides for the identification of priority issues which need the immediate attention of the concerned authorities.
The key speaker of the event discuss the needs for the participants in the direction of the planning and implementation of peace initiatives. It is worth mention that the workshop is being carried out under the provisions of project “Women and young women for the implementation of the peace and security agenda at the local level”.
This historic project is under implementation with the financial support of Great Britain and with the partnership of United Nations Women’s Organization. NGO also shared this information on their social media handles with glimpses . The workshop was attended by the significant number of youth and women from locality.
Key speaker who were addressing the attendee also gave a presnetaionn to make them understand the various aspects of the topic. On the other hand the particpants of the meeting also shared their views and expressed gratitude towards the organisers of event as well.
