Labor rights are considered the most unprotected area of human rights, and due to the difficult social situation, people have tolerated violations of labor rights, and harsh and unfair working conditions. Moreover, violations of labor rights have a relatively high share in the violations of natural human rights in Armenia. As is the case with other rights, the level of awareness about labor...
“The Postprotest Context in Armenia: Divergent Pathways for Civic Actors” article, written by our colleagues Armine Ishkanian and Sona Manusyan, was published in the new report of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled “After Protest: Pathways beyond Mass Mobilization”. In the chapter they discuss the pathways of civil society development in Armenia since 2018...
The research demonstrates how progressive civil society groups became the avant-garde of the Armenian revolution by acting as an inspiration and role model for larger social groups by popularizing various mechanisms and techniques of resistance. While some individuals from these groups became part of the interim government or local self-government bodies shortly after the revolution and were more...
In 2010, two years after the 2008 global financial crisis, we witnessed the explosion of protest movements throughout the globe[1]. Alongside the global anti-austerity (e.g. Occupy Wall Street, the Indignados in Spain, etc.) and pro-democracy movements of the Arab Spring, there was also a rise of civic activism across some former Soviet countries including Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine...
This report is based on Armine Ishkhanyan’s extensive qualitative field researches conducted during her three visits to Armenia. The research was assisted by the Socioscope team. The report examines the recent social mobilization of civil society groups in Armenia on environmental issues. In particular, it focuses on organized civil society campaigns against the mining industry in the country...