Nato Shavlakadze

In 2024 she and Eliso Amirejibi were awarded the Georgian Order of Honor for their work with the National Network of Protection from Violence.

She studied technology and law at the Agricultural University of Georgia in her home city.

[1] In 1998 she was elected as the chair of the women's organisation named "Peony"[2] and in 2003 she began to lead Georgia's "National Network of Protection from Violence"[1] which she and Eliso Amirejibi had founded[3] with the support of the Open Society Georgia Foundation.

In the following year the first Georgian shelter for families facing domestic violence was opened in Tbilisi and in 2005 the organisation partnered with similar organisations to draft new laws for Georgia that reflected the modern approach to dealing with domestic violence.

The four others were Babutsa Pataraia, Tamuna Museridze, Eliso Amirejibi and Ana Arganashvili.