The policy paper was developed using data gathered from comprehensive research on poverty, employment, and labor rights in Armenia’s two regions with the highest poverty levels: Shirak and Gegharkunik. Based on this research findings, recommendations were formulated and directed towards various stakeholders, including the Government represented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs...
Why is the Human Rights Agenda So Attractive to Right-Wing Groups?
After the Second World War, the second half of the 20th century can be considered the “golden age” of human rights. Referring to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, almost all states of the world added human rights provisions and normative acts to the content of their national Constitutions. In the second half of the 20th century, the idea and perspectives of human rights were...
The War from a Woman’s Perspective: on the “Women for Peace” Campaign
A Prologue to the Epilogue The article is about the peculiarity of the “Women for Peace” campaign initiated by the RA Prime Minister’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, and the reopened talks on peace in the public domain, combined with the stories of peace-building efforts of female figures of different periods of the Armenian reality. The work on the article started parallel to the launch of the...
War, Uncertainty of the Future and Peaceful Coexistence
The research reveals the perceptions of persons displaced due to the second Karabakh war on the concepts of war and peace, peaceful coexistence in the region, their future and the future of Karabakh․ It is an attempt to understand the relationship between war and socioeconomic context, retrospective reflections on the causes and expectations of war, perceptions of the future and the possibility...
Sexuality in Armenaian [CON]TEXTS
“Sexuality in Armenian [Con]texts” is a result of extensive and diverse studies on the issue of sexuality. Sexuality, being one of the main sensitive issues manipulated from the perspective of power dynamics, is also one of the least studied in Armenian culture. This research project reveals the issue of sexuality in a complex and diverse, changing reality in the Armenian past. At the same time...