Ekaterine Gamakharia
2006 Fellow, Georgia
The main focus of Eka’s work is on human rights, particularly those of women and of IDPs (internally displaced people). Due to a change in her family status, she recently moved to Baku and currently works as a freelance consultant for various NGOs. Until October 2008 she worked as a National Consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Georgia, responsible for identifying the existing gaps in protection of IDPs and assisting in devising projects to remedy these gaps.
At the time of the 2006 Programme Eka was the Director of the Women’s Rights/Human Rights Protection Division for the Cultural Humanitarian Fund ‘Sukhumi’, an NGO working to promote women’s involvement in peace-building, social and political life of the country in order to improve the lives of IDPs from Abkhazia and create a favourable condition for Georgian-Abkhaz conflict resolution.
In 2006/7 Eka was awarded a Muskie Fellowship. She studied at the Indiana School of Law (IUPUI) in Indianapolis, Indiana, US on the International Human Rights Law track. In the summer of 2007 she worked as a research intern for the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) in their Policy and Research Department in Washington DC.
Eka gives her opinion on the problems facing democracy in the region
Tbilisi, April 2008, JSMT Networking Conference
Contact
If you would like to contact Eka please write to ekagama@gmail.com