TBILISI, DFWatch–A mine worker died Thursday in a metal ore processing plant in Chiatura, a town in western Georgia. Another worker was injured and brought to the hospital.
The plant was being dismantled by workers in the Darkveti mine on orders of the mine’s owner,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The United Nations is ready to finance projects in Abkhazia with USD 15 million this year.
Resident Coordinator for the UN Development Program in Georgia, Niels Scott, told this to de facto President Aleksandre Ankvab, according to Apsnypress.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several hundreds people from the village Kazreti in southern Georgia demonstrated in front of the government office in Tbilisi on Friday.
They demand that the government mediates between the workers and the company that owns the mines in their
TBILISI, DFWatch–37 percent of children in Georgia live below the poverty line, according to a new report by UNICEF.
Child poverty increased 2 percent in 2013, compared to 2011. Georgia has the second highest rate of inequality in Europe, the organization writes.
TBILISI, DFWatch–For about two weeks, the entire Kazreti village has been on strike. People have joined the strike among workers in the gold mines.
Eight people are on hunger strike. The workers want increased salaries, improved working conditions and insurance, and
TBILISI, DFWatch–The mine workers in Chiatura have once more gone on strike. For five days, several hundred have not showed up at work, while others say they are ready to join the strike.
After the change of government in 2012, the miners in Chiatura went on strike
TBILISI, DFWatch–Minibus drivers in Rustavi southeast of Tbilisi are on strike.
They are protesting against the competition for transport by City Council and demand to delay for three to five years the competition for inner city and Tbilisi-Rustavi transport.
TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last two weeks, environment activists have been standing watch day and night in Vake Park in Tbilisi, to prevent the construction of a new hotel.
The hotel will be built where an old restaurant called Budapest is located. It has been private property since 1994, but
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia proposes to automatically give Georgian citizenship to a child who was born through in vitro fertilization if none of the parents’s home countries recognize it as its citizen.
The Ministry of Justice explains that the new
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two people have died during the last two days in shelter tents which were put up in Tbilisi and Gori to help homeless people get through the winter.
A woman died January 11 in a tent in Tbilisi. The cause of death is still unknown.
The woman was brought