Our Concerns Regarding the Joint Declaration of Armenia-Azerbaijan-USA on August 8, 2025, and the Initialed Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Agreement On August 8, 2025, Armenia and Azerbaijan, mediated by the United States of America, signed a “Joint Declaration for Peace” in Washington. Subsequently, on August 11, 2025, the initialed “Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and Interstate...
Anyone interested in volunteering, activism, women’s needs, issues, and rights can join the Women’s Resource Center. Volunteers have always played a very important role in the center’s activism journey; they have initiated and been a part of the programs that were implemented. Now, you can also join the feminist team of WRC volunteers. By volunteering...
Today, we received yet another disappointing confirmation of how deeply broken our judicial system is. For seven years, women’s rights defender Lara Aharonian has been fighting a defamation case in first instance court against an individual who falsely and maliciously accused her of “perverting children” and “spreading pedophilia”—a common attack used against those who advocate...
Between October and November, we organized three online meetings and one in-person session with our partner NGOs. The goal of these meetings was to enhance awareness about providing sensitive counseling to diverse groups of women in need of sexual and reproductive health services, including survivors of violence, women living in rural areas, and women with...
By armi nellik The National Day Against Domestic Violence in Armenia was commemorated on October 1st by releasing floating candles on Swan Lake, near the Freedom Square in Yerevan. “We have come a long way from denial to acceptance of domestic violence as something that impacts every third woman (and not only) in Armenia through...
By armi nellik Women can access medical abortion even in out-of-hospital settings for up to eight weeks in Armenia since August 2024, according to legal reforms expanding reproductive rights. Amendments to the law “On Human Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights” were adopted by the National Assembly of Armenia in the second reading on July 12,...
Feminist Activist Space From January to July 2024, 253 persons used the Women’s Resource Center’s feminist safe space to participate in various events and receive the Center’s services.February 16-18th and June 14-16th, the WRC organized the twice-a-year “Women’s Rights Three-day” training. 23 persons participated in the first training, while 24 attended the second one. As a result of the training, the participants had...
Here’s how Armenian women’s rights groups empowered forcibly displaced Artsakh women to check their sexual and reproductive health. By Lucy Martirosyan Since the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, Armenian women’s rights groups have been leading efforts to provide gender-sensitive health support and aid to forcibly displaced families. But when the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) first announced...
The recent intense rains and storms in Lori and Tavush have resulted in severe flooding, causing widespread devastation across the region. Several bridges were destroyed, roads and streets in towns and villages surrounding the area are completely damaged. There were reports of four casualties and more than 440 people displaced due to the destruction of...
On April 22 and 23, our team had the incredible opportunity to organize a workshop centered around two vital documents: the Council of Europe Convention on “Preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence” and the new EU directive on violence against women and domestic violence. Together with the representatives from the Coalition to...
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