{"id":42127,"date":"2019-01-30T13:36:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=42127"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T13:56:32","slug":"commissioner-dunja-mijatovic-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/commissioner-dunja-mijatovic-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Dunja Mijatovi\u0107: &#8220;Women in Armenia continue to suffer from major inequalities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42128\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dunya-mijatovich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"786\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dunya-mijatovich.jpg 786w, https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dunya-mijatovich-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dunya-mijatovich-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/dunya-mijatovich-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, today published <a href=\"https:\/\/rm.coe.int\/report-on-the-visit-to-armenia-from-16-to-20-september-2018-by-dunja-m\/168091f9d5\">the report<\/a> of her visit to Armenia carried out in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report focuses on women\u2019s rights, gender equality and domestic violence; the human rights of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups; and accountability for past human rights violations. The report also focuses on the &nbsp;human rights of persons&nbsp;with disabilities, children, older persons and LGBTI people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A press release summarizing Mijatovi\u0107\u2019s findings notes that:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinding that women in Armenia remain significantly underrepresented in public decision-making, the Commissioner urges the authorities to ensure women\u2019s full and effective participation, as well as equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of public life, equal pay and equal access to the labour market. In order to counter the persisting discriminatory gender stereotypes, Commissioner Mijatovi\u0107 recommends raising public awareness and promoting gender equality, especially through education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The report is available <a href=\"https:\/\/rm.coe.int\/report-on-the-visit-to-armenia-from-16-to-20-september-2018-by-dunja-m\/168091f9d5\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&nbsp; The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, today published the report of her visit to Armenia carried out in September 2018. &nbsp; The report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,99,187,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-119","category-99","category-womens-agenda","category-125"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127","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=42127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42131,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42127\/revisions\/42131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}