Widows in the world and in Armenia

The UN General Assembly declared June 23 as International Widow’s Day. In fact, the decision was made only four years ago in 2010. According to UN data there are 250 million widows around the world 115 out of which are poor. In many countries women’s status is a derivative of their husbands’ status and becoming a widow a woman can lose everything even the basic means of survival.

 

 

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