Friday, August 14, 2026

Child poverty is still high in Georgia

Zurab Tchiaberashvili, Minister of Health, Labor and Social Affairs, promised to take the findings into consideration. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The poverty rate in Georgia has been reduced, but child poverty is still very high.

According to a survey conducted by UNICEF, far too many children are still living in poverty, however the rate of poverty has been reduced by 2 percent from

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More violent incidents during Georgian election campaign

Nino Lomjaria, head of ISFED, says that in the last period, there has been frequent use of administrative powers, including administrative detention, a special form of coercion left over from the Soviet legal system.

TBILISI, DFWatch – An employee of a public library who was fired in June claims the reason was her political opinion. She openly says she sympathizes with the opposition Georgian Dream party established by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The library’s director,

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