Since 2004, there has been a wave of aggressive privatization in Georgia. Until today the state is allowing for a situation, whereby uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources leads to people becoming dependent on monopolist enterprises.

The photos are taken by Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) in the frameworks of the project Strengthening the Workers in Industrial Zones and the Young Civil Society Activists for the Protection of the Environment and the Labor Rights implemented in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation South Caucasus Regional Office.