Why is Women’s Representation in Armenia’s Government More Relevant Today?

By Lara Tcholakian

Including more women in government isn’t just about numbers, but to ensure a broad representation. Lara Cholakian writes that this doesn’t necessarily mean that women political decision-makers will always raise issues that are relevant or important to women, or that male political leaders will always exclude them.

Why the 2016 Gyumri and Vanadzor Municipal Election Results Were Boycotted

By Harout Manougian

Opposition parties in Armenia’s second and third largest cities considered the last municipal elections to be illegitimate and refused to attend council meetings for a year. The concerns they raised can be addressed before 2021.

Why the Corrupt are Terrified of Transitional Justice

By Nerses Kopalyan

Formulating the compatibility of transitional justice with Armenia's laws and constitutional statutes shouldn't be problematic, writes Nerses Kopalyan. However, the Pashinyan government, must go out of its way to make certain that the formation of any element of the instruments of transitional justice are fundamentally impartial, profoundly non-politicized, and unequivocally objective.

Will the Revolution Succeed Without the Protection of Labor Rights?

By Sofia Manukyan

Year after year international reports raise red flags about labor rights in Armenia even when on paper, labor laws are considered to be relatively sufficient. Expectations are high from the new government in terms of ending a number of ills society has been plagued with but what are the common abuses of the labor law and what are the solutions?

Will the Velvet Revolution Shift Armenia’s Dismal Demographic Patterns?

By Lusine Sargsyan

Will Armenia be able to turn the tide on migration? According to a 2015 UN Report, Armenia’s population is projected to decrease to 2.7 million by 2050. Following the Velvet Revolution, however, the ominous demographic situation is starting to show some positive developments.

With Every Act of Volunteering, a Person Gives a Part of Their Soul

By Gohar Abrahamyan

What motivates people to give of themselves and their time in the pursuit of helping others and their communities? Three women explain.

Women Continue to Sit on the Sidelines in Armenian Politics

By Gohar Abrahamyan

Despite the fact that more than 50 percent of Armenia’s population are women, only one party has entrusted the number one slot on its electoral list to a woman. Gohar Abrahamyan takes a look at which forces have the most women on their lists and why women’s presence alongside men is not the result of good will and remains problematic.

Women of Armenia

Almost a third of families living in rural Armenia are female-headed households, a UN Report in 2017 found. These households are more likely to be in extreme poverty than male-headed households. This film by Tsovinar Hakobyan and Joe Nerssessian focuses on the lives of five women from Syunik.

Women on Bikes

By Ani Garibyan

While understanding the historical importance and benefits of bicycles in women’s lives, why are less females riding bikes? Some major cities in the U.S. and Europe have conducted studies to understand this, and the main factor is safety.

Women Who Write

Armenian women writers have largely been forgotten or ignored. Their essays, poems and novels have either never been published or have been left out of the literary canon. Here is a selection of covers written by Armenian women over the past decade.