Ekaterine Aghdgomelashvili, the founder and director of Women’s Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) became the first winner of the Kato Mikeladze Award for the human rights defenders in Georgia.
Kato Mikeladze Award has been established by the Women’s Fund in Georgia (WFG) to honor women’s rights activists and to celebrate International Women Human Rights Defenders Day.
Kato Mikeladze Award for the Women Human Rights Defenders in Georgia will be awarded by the Women’s Fund in Georgia to one woman activist every year, on November 29.
Kato Mikeladze was a feminist, women’s rights activist and publicist in 20th century Georgia.