www.femicide.ge is established by the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, in cooperation with the NGOs and journalists within the project “Tracking Violent Crime against Women”, implemented in 2016-2019 and supported by the EU NEARBY. Within the framework of the project, a database was created, in which the crime trends are described with accuracy. The base is transparent and easily accessible. Using contemporary methods of visualization, data perception is much simpler and comprehensible, which itself increases the interest of the public towards the issue. The website allows citizens to publicly or anonymously leave a message about the crime. Articles about the crimes committed across the Georgia , Armenia and Azerbaijan are published every year by the students of GIPA during the advanced reporting and writing classes conducted by Professor Tina Tsomaia. The platform is coordinated by the council of researchers that was established in July 2020, following the development of The European Observatory on Femicide (EOF), a research and advocacy initiative on prevention of gender-related killings of women that formed country research groups, including Georgia. Current council members are:

• Tamar Dekanosidze --  Equality Now Eurasia Consultant
• Nino Ivanishvili -- Dean of GIPA
• Darejan Javakhishvili -- Professor at Ilia State University, Past President of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
• Lasha Kveseladze -- founder of "Journalistic Data Processing Centre"(www.kavshirebi.ge), Investigative Journalist at  "Mtavari" TV Channel
• Ekaterine Skhiladze -- Deputy Public Defender of Georgia
• Ia Shalamberidze -- Multimedia Journalist, Strategic communicator at foundation TASO
• Tina Tsomaia -- GIPA Professor

the project “Tracking Violent Crime against Women” aims at four
general objectives:

• Contribute to protection of human rights
• Improve media coverage of crime
• Facilitate gender equality
• Increase capacity of journalists and relevant CSOs

The main concept of the project is that protection of women by spotlighting
underreported crime cases and raising awareness for the crime contributing factors
is one of the most effective tools for protecting marginalized and vulnerable groups
of women.

Importance of the Project

Within the framework of the project, a database is created, in which the crime
trends are described with the extreme accuracy. The base is transparent and easily
accessible. Using contemporary methods of visualization, data perception is much
simpler and comprehensible, which itself increases the interest of the public towards
the issue.

Besides, specially trained journalists are working on articles about the crimes
committed across the country and cover the issue of the problem from different
angles.

The website of the project allows citizens to publicly or anonymously leave a
message about the crime.

As a result, the project unites journalists, civil society, law enforcement agencies and
ordinary citizens around one common goal. And this goal is reducing violence against
women.

We believe that the progress in the country is achieved with the decisions of the
informed population.