Disability in Georgia

Nina’s story: How assistive technology is improving her quality of life (2022, WHO)

A crisis within the disability rights movement Publication with an interview with Esma Gumberidze exploring corruption and how disability activists can be silenced. (2023, Swedish Development Forum)

How does the property of blind people become someone else’s behind closed doors? Investigative feature on the Union of the Blind, established in 1926. (In Georgian, 2023, Investigative Journalists' Team)

Overview

The Cost of Raising a Child with Disabilities The Goods and Services Required for the Equal Participation of Children with Disabilities. (2023, UNICEF)

Social Protection

Pension or disability assistance: an unfair choice? “an older person with disabilities has to choose to receive either a disability benefit or an old-age pension.” (2022, Development Pathways)

Exploring visions of inclusion: women’s disability activism in Georgia. (2022)

Georgian court orders government to provide assistant to person with disabilities. (2022, OC Media)

Situation Analysis of the rights of persons with disabilities. (2022, UNPRPD)

Situation Analysis of the Rights of People with Disabilities Describes legislative and policy progress but "despite these changes, little has improved in the daily lives of many persons with disabilities in Georgia". (2022, UNDP)

What type of country we become Disabled people between Georgia’s Soviet legacy and European future:

“As disabled people, whatever happens in the world affects us. In article I explain how larger geopolitical battles also play out in the disability community. On the one hand the legacy of the Soviet Union is still present. And on the other hand Europe gives us an ideal of what rights can look like, even as they are held out of reach.” (Oct, Disability Debrief)

Evacuating or Leaving Ukraine

WHO supports an inclusive response to refugees with disabilities in Georgia. (2023, WHO)