The topic of women’s involvement in the army very often seems to be obscure and abstract, but when you visit border military unit you meet women who have […]

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During nine years of marriage Hasmik Khachatryan was continuously subjected to torture and abuse by her husband. Two days ago Hasmik Khachatryan’s husband Sargis Hakobyan was sentenced according […]

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On December 22nd in the court of the first instance of Gavar a verdict of domestic violence against 28-year-old Hasmik Khachatryan – a fortune-teller Varsik’s daughter-in-law was announced. […]

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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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Such an opinion was expressed by Hovhannes Sahakyan – Chairman of NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs with regard to draft law “On preventing violence”. It […]

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According to official statistics, only from the period January-August, 2014, police received 1500 calls about violence against women, and 12 women died from domestic violence this year. Cases […]

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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Around the World: UN Calls to Step Up Efforts to End Violence Against Women in Armenia   On the occasion of […]

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The article “Unborn girls of Armenia” published on womennet.am caused hot discussions in Facebook social network. The reason is the story told by one of young fathers. It […]

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“When we were going to have a child, the doctor found out the sex of a child and asked us if we have a boy, then we answered […]

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Today is the International day of women human rights defenders which is one of the events celebrated within 16-days of activism. History evidences that it has always been […]

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