{"id":37489,"date":"2017-10-26T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=37489"},"modified":"2017-11-03T20:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T20:20:26","slug":"shaqe-isayan-aragark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/shaqe-isayan-aragark\/","title":{"rendered":"MP suggests creating women&#8217;s council in National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Shaqe-Isayan.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The enlargement process hampers the involvement of women in local self-governing bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have gone through one stage of enlargement of the community and the existing statistics already indicate that women&#8217;s involvement in local self-government bodies has dropped from 2 to 3 times. This problem was raised by Shakey Isayan, a member of the National Assembly from Tsarukyan faction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If before in this republic no regions and towns were led by women and women were represented only in the positions of heads of rural communities, as a result of the factual reforms, we also have a big gap in representation of women,&#8221; she noted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The MP also suggested creating a Women&#8217;s Council in the National Assembly, which would be in touch with the relevant government agencies and through which women&#8217;s involvement would increase in certain processes. The MP also referred to international practice, which shows that many parliaments operate commissions on women&#8217;s rights protection and advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full text in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amshaqe-isayan-aragark\/\">Armenian<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">The enlargement process hampers the involvement of women in local self-governing bodies. &nbsp; We have gone through one stage of enlargement of the community and the existing statistics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,181,132,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-119","category-181","category-women-and-elections","category-179"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37543,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37489\/revisions\/37543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}