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Anna Hakobyan Campaigns for “Women for Peace” in NK but Ready for Military Training
- As women, mothers, sisters we have the right to demand our husbands to spare the lives of our sons, brothers, husbands...Read More »
Coalition to Stop Violence against Women Calls for Removal of Misogynistic Members of the Public Council
Members sharing the ideas of Ashot Mirzoyan, should not be part of an institution expressing public opinion giving advice to the government and that the Council should only have...Read More »
March 8: “Women are Killed at Home, Exploited in the Family”
Other banners criticizing systems of exploitation, such as "The nation is not an army, Amulsar is not a mine, women are not a commodity" sparked social media discussions after the march...Read More »
Call off the Mandate, Leave the Opportunity to Comprehend
If your attitude to the awful crime changes by twisting around the female victim into a male victim, if you believe, should a male be in the same position as the woman and be considered a poor victim, while this woman...Read More »
Femicide Continues in Armenia: Mother and Daughter Severely Beaten Up, Mother Dead
Gyumri woke up to the horrendous crime news in the morning of February 6, 2020. A 28-year-old man severely beat up his 43-year-old female partner and her 13-year-old daughter.․․Read More »
The Year Starts with More Femicide Cases: Husband Hangs Wife in a Village
The Investigative Committee reports that on January 22, 2020, at around 17:30 a resident of Tavush Marz called the police that he had found his wife hanged in their house and said it was a suicide.Read More »
Incestuous Child Pregnancy Case Investigated Under Mild Criminal Offense
The law enforcement body's press statement, however, clearly indicates that this shocking crime against a child remains under the mildest criminal offense, and does not involve domestic violence, pedophilia․․․Read More »
Infamous Chakhalyan has Beaten Elderly People During Petition Campaign Against Istanbul Convention
The victims insist that Argishti Tonoyan, senior investigator of particularly important cases of Spitak Investigative Department, is biased and was not enthusiastic to carry out an objective investigation.Read More »
Man Stabs 26-Year-Old Ex-Wife in an Attempt to Murder
The preliminary investigation has found out that at around 5am in the morning of January 3 2019, a 29-year-old man, the ex-husband of the woman, went to her apartment and stabbed the woman with an intention to kill her.Read More »
Three Arrested On Suspicion Of Forcing Women To Abandon Their Babies
Immediately after their birth the children were taken to state-run orphanages whose senior employees later arranged their adoption by foreigners through forgery of their medical records and other violations...Read More »