Edita Badasyan is a freelance journalist from Georgia, Tbilisi. She is writing for "Caucasian Knot" (www.kavkaz.memo.ru), "Women connecting for peace" (project from IWPR and UN Woman-www.women-peace.net), "Jnews" (www.jnews.ge). She also prepares radio reports for German language radio companies in Germany, Austria and Swiss. (www.ic-mn.de). Moreover, she is cooperating with BBC Azerbaijan service. She covers issues connected to politics, conflicts, minorities, social problems, gender, human rights and so on. Edita has participated in the peace making processes between Russia-Georgia, Armenia-Azerbaijani and Georgia-Abkhazian and South Ossetia.
27 year-oldMargo Zhiznevskaya is a representative of the Georgian young entrepreneurs generation. She is the founder and director of several companies and there are more than 30 workers in Georgia and in Egypt under her leadership. Margo discusses how it is to be a young business woman in Georgia.
The story of a single mother Nina is synonymous with multiple other women across Georgia, who have decided to become surrogate mothers. Surrogacy has been legal in georgia since 1997 and despite conservative society views, it has become a way to escape harsh social conditions and gift other people with the joy of parenthood.
The LGBTQI community in the Republic of Georgia is one of the most isolated within the society. But despite the taboo subject, there are people who are passionately trying to inform others that differences in sexual orientation is not a threat to society. Beka, Natia and Koba, LGBTQI activists in Georgia, share their opinions.