Rustavi children play in contaminated playgrounds as the government ignores the toxic industrial legacy

RUSTAVI/PRAGUE: Children in Rustavi, a Georgian industrial centre, play on playgrounds contaminated with banned chemicals, while local families consume toxic food, exposing them to…

Citizen Science to Fight Dirty Air: Georgia's Network of Pollution Monitoring Reaches a Hundred Stations

TBILISI/PRAGUE - AirGE, the community network in Georgia, has reached 100 citizen science air pollution monitoring stations in 11 cities, despite the ongoing political crisis. This system, unique in the Caucasus, provides an alternative to weak state environmental monitoring and gives citizens access to information about what they breathe.The network was set up by the Tbilisi-based NGO Green Pole in partnership with Arnika, based in…

Arnika Joins International Call for Solidarity with Georgian Society

Georgian civil society is under increasing pressure from authoritarianism and moves by the Georgian Dream party to tighten the political grip. Since the autumn…