At today’s session, the government rejected the legislative initiative “On Making Addendum to the RA Labor Code” filed by Lena Nazaryan, a member of the “Yelq” faction, which […]

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28-year-old Astghik (name changed) has lost her job twice because of her gender. Astghik, an economist by profession, says: “Perhaps I was not lucky to be a girl […]

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The lives and well-being of women and children in Armenia who have survived domestic violence are in jeopardy because of the Armenian government’s failure to ensure their protection, […]

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Everyone knows the problems of the Armenian labor market, the shadow, unsatisfactory remuneration for labor, overtime work, no vacations, and other forms of employee exploitation. And along with […]

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WomenNet.am presents  top ten most important events of the year 2017:   The team from the Karbi village, who has authored the mobile app, was awarded the “Technovation” […]

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Every third is poor   According to the latest data of the RA Census Bureau, 880 thousand people are poor in Armenia in 2016, 241 thousand of them […]

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Self-made women are trailblazing through the ranks of the World’s Billionaires. Forbes’ 2017 list, released Monday, includes more self-made women billionaires than any year before in the list’s 30-year […]

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ll violence against women betrays the fundamental promise in the UN Charter of equal rights and dignity for women. It is one of the prime reasons why women […]

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At today’s session, the Armenian government approved the Council of Europe Convention on the Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence adopted in 2011 in Istanbul. […]

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As a result of the consolidation, the percentage representation of women in the councils has dropped by more than 2 times, and in some provinces – 3-6 times. […]

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