{"id":37719,"date":"2017-11-08T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=37719"},"modified":"2017-11-15T20:18:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T20:18:43","slug":"dv-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/dv-20\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 50 Diasporan Artists, Scholars Call on Armenia to Adopt Domestic Violence Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/domviolence.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>A group of Diaspora Armenian artists, scholars, and writers issued a statement calling on the Armenian authorities to adopt the law on domestic violence proposed by the Armenia\u2019s Ministry of Justice, reports &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/asbarez.com\/168255\/\">Asbarez<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The more than 50 signatories include artist and activist Serj Tankian, actor and playwright Eric Bogosian, novelists Chris Bohjalian, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, and Nancy Kricorian, artist and author Vahe Berberian, photographer Scout Tufankjian, and journalist David Barsamian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Below is the statement and the list of signatories.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We, a group of Diaspora Armenian writers, artists, and scholars, urge the adoption, in a timely manner, of the law proposed by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia \u201cOn the Prevention of Domestic Violence and the Protection of Victims of Domestic Violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Agabian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Micheline Aharonian Marcom, California<\/p>\n<p>Nora Armani, New York<\/p>\n<p>Maria Armoudian, Auckland, New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Anna Astvatsaturian-Turcotte, Maine<\/p>\n<p>Talin Avakian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Ayanian, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>Vicken Babkenian, Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n<p>David Barsamian, Colorado<\/p>\n<p>Vahe Berberian, California<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bogosian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Chris Bohjalian, Vermont<\/p>\n<p>Talar Chahinian, California<\/p>\n<p>Ara Dabandjian, California<\/p>\n<p>Veken Gueyikian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Elke Hartmann, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Kim Hekimian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Chris Janigian, Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p>Tamar Kaprelian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Karanian, California<\/p>\n<p>Suzanne Khardalian, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n<p>Mary Kouyoumdjian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kricorian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Marc Mamigonian, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Lalai Manjikian, Montreal, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Manoukian, California<\/p>\n<p>Christina Maranci, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Bared Maronian, Florida<\/p>\n<p>Armen T. Marsoobian, Connecticut<\/p>\n<p>Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Sato Moughalian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Khatchig Mouradian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Eric Nazarian, California<\/p>\n<p>Sibil Pektorosoglu, Istanbul, Turkey<\/p>\n<p>Karin\u00e9 Poghosyan, New York<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Rapkievian, Maryland<\/p>\n<p>Elyse Semerdjian, Washington<\/p>\n<p>Hovann Simonian, Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>Jason Sohigian, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Anoush Fraser Terjanian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Vah\u00e9 Tachjian, Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n<p>Serj Tankian, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Scout Tufankjian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Henry Theriault, Massachusetts<\/p>\n<p>Hrag Vartanian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Vartanian, New York<\/p>\n<p>Sarah-Leah Whitson, New York<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/asbarez.com\/168255\/\">Asbarez<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">A group of Diaspora Armenian artists, scholars, and writers issued a statement calling on the Armenian authorities to adopt the law on domestic violence proposed by the Armenia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,116,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-93","category-press","category-129"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719","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=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37724,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions\/37724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}