Shorena grew up in the town of Senaki, she witnessed first hand the effects of the war in nearby Abkhazia in the early 1990s – relatives were killed and the family home was hit in a bombardment. While studying law at Tbilisi State University, she started working as a correspondent for a magazine called “Young Lawyer”. In 2008, she started working as a lawyer for the Human Rights Centre in Georgia; one of her roles was to provide free legal representation for displaced persons before the European Court of Human Rights, identifying victims of conflict and assessing their living conditions.
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