Press conference of NGOs dealing with the issue of violence against women held yesterday at Media Center was dedicated to this topic. Speakers – Tatevik Aghabekyan (Sexual assault […]

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Armenia’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on the country’s accomplishments and existing challenges in human rights was discussed Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, at the session of the UPR […]

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Armenia’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the second time on  22 January 2015 in […]

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Richest 1% will own more than all the rest by 2016 – Oxfam The combined wealth of the richest 1 per cent will overtake that of the other […]

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The Women’s Media Center today released its 2015 review of the status of women as nominees for non-acting Academy Awards.   Julie Burton, president of the Women’s Media […]

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One in three known victims of human trafficking is a child, and girls and women are particularly targeted and forced into “modern slavery,” according to the 2014 Global […]

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      On International Migrants Day 2014, December 18th, IOM Director General William Lacy Swing calls for urgent action to save the lives of migrants   The […]

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Which countries have laws preventing violence? Which legislate for gender equality? And which countries allow abortion? Using World Bank and UN data The Guardian offer a snapshot of women’s […]

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  The UN General Assembly proclaimed 10 December as Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention ‘of the peoples of the world’ the Universal Declaration […]

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16 days of activism against gender-based violence is coming to its end, but it lacked a single State announcement which would show the State’s support to the struggle […]

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