November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. All programs of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) joined marking the day. The building of GPB has been lit in red color.

According to the General Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia, during the nine months of 2020 (January-September), 19 women were murdered, including 12 cases of domestic crime, and seven cases of other motives. In addition, there were 20 attempted murders of women, 11 of which were committed on the grounds of domestic crime. Criminal persecution was launched against 3 633 people. The motive of gender discrimination was revealed into cases of 120 people. The 94% of those held criminally responsible were imposed imprisonment for family violence.

Public Broadcaster regularly covers gender equality issues and prioritizes active work on this subject. At the beginning of the year, Public Broadcaster introduced a document elaborated by Gender Equality Steering Group of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) “All Things Being Equal” with engagement of representatives of 11 countries and chaired by Director General of Georgian Public Broadcaster Tinatin Berdzenishvili.