The Georgian city of Chiatura was once one of the world’s most important centres of manganese production. Today, many miners are unemployed and struggling to survive, after ...

Cloaked in Georgian flags, and with their sons’ faces printed across their t-shirts, a small group of women stride through a market in the southwestern Georgian city of Akhaltsikhe.

“People trusted us, they went to us. In many cases, we were their last hope,” said Khatia Rekhviashvili, a project coordinator at one of Georgia’s oldest non-governmental organizations supporting women.For more than 25 years, Rights Georgia has provided free legal support to people who have experienced human rights abuses, from victims of gender-based violence to families displaced by war. But amid an escalating government crackdown on civil society, that work is now under threat.Since May 2024,...

In a field in rural Marneuli, boys in Georgian papakha hats spring through the air while girls glide in the circles of Armenian folk tradition and raise their arms in the graceful movements of Azerbaijani dance. The performance is an embodiment of the Shin festival’s purpose: celebrating the region’s ethnic diversity and showing how culture can bring communitie...