Women in Armenia Archives

Nearly 250 people came to attend, Saturday, March 17, at the conference organized by the Blue Cross of the Armenians of France, Marseille section, with the assistance of the Armenian General Union of Benevolence, in the premises of the amphitheater of the Faculty of Medicine. ‘Aix Marseille on the theme: The status of women in Armenia, a future without violence.

This symposium was moderated by Véronique Bruna Mardoyan, history professor, recalling the place of women in Armenia through the ages, Lara Aharonian, founder of the NGO “Women’s Resource Center Armenia” has, in a long exposed the public’s attention to the condition of women in Armenia and their difficulties in gaining recognition in a social and political landscape, the great majority of which is male, but with a new law giving women the dignity they deserve. within society. Ambassador Paruyr Hovhannisyan, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the Council of Europe, made a precise and complete comment on the law recently passed.

After a welcome coffee break, the symposium continued with the intervention of Michel Marian, philosopher, lecturer at the IEP in Paris, who emphasized the excesses of the planned birth, giving preference to boys rather than girls, a situation that may create an imbalance in the evolution of a country where the male preference has long been a subject on which it is difficult to speak or comment. Maitre Rose Marie Frangulian-Le Priol, lawyer at the Paris Bar, founder of AFAJA, commented on the French texts that refer to all that is undertaken to restore dignity to women in society, referring to news, and comparing it with the situation in Armenia. The last speaker was Eric Florentino representing SOS Women in Marseille, who shed light on the situation of women, and the action of his association to help them, host them, and accompany them in all the steps inherent to their condition.

Then, through the game of questions and answers, the public was able to demonstrate the attention with which he had followed the debates and passions he had provoked. We have seen that such debates are necessary to enable the community to advance, through its testimony, subjects on which information is discreet. A ballot box had been deposited at the entrance, the amount of which had been supplemented by CBAF and AGBU, which had given the association of Mrs. Lara Aharonian the sum of € 1,000.