A Room of a Photographer’s Own

Five women photographers confront a conservative cultural ethos by turning the camera upon themselves and thus becoming objects of scrutiny and interpretation.

A Room of Our Own: An Invitation to Write

By Atoussa S.

Atoussa S. explores the history of women writing and their absence in the literary canon. In this essay for EVN Report, she seeks answers to the questions: What circumstances make women writing/literature possible? What do women own in their writing? What is the meaning of this ownership?

A Small Room in a Big Building: Armenia’s Senior Citizens

By Lusine Sargsyan

What happens to those senior citizens in Armenia, who don’t have families who can or want to take care of them? There are only a handful of public and private old age homes, most suffering from lack of funding and poor services.

A Wave of New Political Parties Crashes Onto the Scene

By Harout Manougian

Thirty-one founding congresses for new political parties have been scheduled since the start of the year, a quantity not seen since the country gained independence 30 years ago.

A White Paper to Build a Security Architecture

By Tigran Yegavian

What has Armenia’s defeat in the 2020 Artsakh War revealed? Tigran Yegavian reviews a recently published White Paper that looks at a number of misconceptions, failures and dysfunctions within Armenian statehood and attempts to diagnose those ills and offer possible solutions.

About the Alternative World of Spaces Between Objects

By Davit Nersisyan - Mirzoyan Library

In the second part of photographer Davit Nersisyan's larger body of work about the visually impaired in Armenia, Nersisyan explores the most intimate physical spaces of the visually impaired - their own rooms - by asking the person who inhabits the space but does not see it to map it.

Abusing the Levers of Power?

The Republican Party of Armenia is at the center of a scandal regarding the use of administrative resources in public schools ahead of parliamentary elections.

Activism in Times of a Pandemic: A Case Study on the South Caucasus

By Andranik Shirinyan

Innovative forms of activism emerged in different societies to overcome the limitations of physical distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Addressing the Gaps in Armenia’s Family Law to Mitigate Human Rights Violations

By Zara Hovhannisyan

What happens when a couple only has a church wedding, but not a civil marriage? What about couples that have done neither but are living and raising a family together? These unions are not legally recognized in Armenia’s Family Law leading to a lot of problems down the road.

Addressing the HPV Vaccine Hysteria

By Kristen Anais Bayrakdarian

Over the course of the next two years, 20,000 13-year-old girls in Armenia are to receive the HPV vaccine free of charge before the Ministry of Health makes a decision for permanent implementation of the vaccine into the national plan.