ENGLISH & RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS
Notes from Articles:
Georgia - Globalization &
Gender
"Neither the global economy, nor the global culture
will be able to develop without the second gender. So why is women's activation
accompanied by many problems? Why do we again have to prove our
equality?
Civilization bluffs us. The purpose of this
craftiness is to exploit us twice - at the machine or lecturing desk and at the
kitchen stove. At the evening, thousands of tired
women stand motionless at the window for a minute. There is some laundry to do;
there are some dishes. Before they continue working, these women look at the
sunset. They know that there will be another difficult day
tomorrow."
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Azerbaijan - TV Spoils Our
Wives
"A woman named Mahbuba addressed our organization,
claiming domestic violence in her family. She said that her husband does not
allow her to watch TV, and thus she is unable to get information she wants.
'Once I sit down to watch a movie or a TV show on
women's rights or simply on the lives of women abroad, my husband makes me
switch the channel. When I protest, he says that it was good back in the Soviet
times, when all the people watched only one TV channel. He said that today the
TV takes our wives away and breaks the families.' "
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Kyrgyzstan - In Charge For The
Meals
"My mother taught me that the best food should
always be given to the father and husband. And, I always do so." (Anara,
36).
"We do not start eating until the man, the head of
the family, sits down at the table. I understand that this is for showing
respect, but there are other ways to demonstrate respect to your husband."
(Kyal, 19)
"Man is a breadwinner. He should be eating the best
and the most delicious food."
(Asia,
73)
"When you are pregnant, you get the best food from
your husband and his family, but once you give birth to a baby, everything
changes." (Merim, 28)
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Georgia - How Many Times Will I Become A
Refugee?
"We live in Maspindzeli Hotel. It is located at the
Railway Square in Tbilisi. The building is half-ruined, very wet and dark. We
take shelter here and make fire outside to get warmer. We are the refugees from
Abkhazia, and we live in circumstances like this for many years already. We lost
everything in the war, but even today we are losing this building. To turn us
out, authorities stopped supplying us with electricity and water. My husband and
my parents died in the war, and I have only one child I brought up in Russia.
But, we were deported from there. Recently, I found out that I am seriously ill.
I addressed to different structures, but nobody pays attention to me. I went to
the Minister of Refugees and Placement, but he said rude things and showed the
door to me."
Kety Kvaratskhelia, Internally Displaced Woman,
Tbilisi, Georgia
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STATISTICS - UNFPA +
70% of the world's poorest people are
women.
Women spend 2/3 of the total world's time working,
but earn only l/10 of the world's money.
Women produce l/2 of the world's food, but women
own less than 2% of the land.
Women are 2/3 of the illiterate adults in the
world.
Every minute in the world, one woman dies as a
result of pregnancy complications.
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