Public opinion polls show 46.6% of respondents believe Armenian women are discriminated, while 41.1% disagree with this opinion, said head of Caucasus Research Center while presenting a “Survey on Gender Dimension of Civic and Political Participation in Armenia”.
Activist Egyptian women look forward to forming a voting bloc for the elections and celebrating newfound democratic freedoms. But an Amnesty International report of female protesters tortured by military officers is casting a pall.
While representing a month of liberation for many in the Middle East, March was revolutionary for the area in more than one way. At the culmination of Women’s History Month, I would like to take note of some very famous women as of late: the female revolutionaries of the Middle East.
Afghanistan shows their rights tend to be forgotten in our eagerness to intervene. Libya deserves better
With the forthcoming elections of June 2011, the issue of “equal representation of women” in the parliament is back on the agenda. While many women are being candidates for the elections, they also expect the politicians to nominate them to the positions that they might be elected in the l
Following the naming of transsexual Öykü Özen as a candidate nominee from the main opposition, another transsexual has applied to run for Parliament from the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.
A group of women intelligentsia has initiated a daily silent sit-in at Yerevan’s central Liberty Square, which according to its organizers, is the logical continuation of Heritage Party leader Raffi Hovannisian’s 15-day hunger strike staged in the same location last month.
In what ways are women participating in the protests in Yemen?