{"id":275729,"date":"2016-11-25T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T13:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275729"},"modified":"2017-02-28T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T08:21:16","slug":"okay-when-shes-asking-for-it-march-in-yerevan-against-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/11\/25\/okay-when-shes-asking-for-it-march-in-yerevan-against-domestic-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"‘Okay When She’s Asking for It;’ March in Yerevan Against Domestic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to do when your partner is subjecting you to physical abuse? Where to look for legal and mental support? A number of women’s rights organizations held an awareness march through the streets of Yerevan today, handing out leaflets with domestic violence hotlines, which also provided answers to these questions. The march marked the beginning of the 16-day awareness and advocacy campaign against gender-based violence<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The marchers passed by a number of Yerevan’s universities, handing out the information booklets primarily to students. As a response, female students generally said they had never heard of domestic violence and that nothing of the kind had ever happened in their families. The majority of young men, for their part, tried to laugh the issue off as a joke: \u201cAre you holding this action so that we beat women less frequently during these 16 days?\u201d; \u201cYes, give me the leaflet so that I know how to beat them properly\u201d. At the same time, they justified gender-based violence, insisting that subjecting women to physical abuse was okay when \u201cthe man can’t take her any more\u201d or \u201cwhen she’s asking for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, most of them insisted that domestic violence was not a normal occurrence in their homes. \u201cIt mainly happens in villages,\u201d they claimed.<\/p>\n

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