This project aims at strengthening the capacities and co-operation among stakeholders to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence, including digital violence, as enshrined in the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), and at advancing de facto gender equality and women’s empowerment.

About the project

This new project builds on the lessons learned from the previous project "The path towards Armenia's ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence" which ended in December 2022.

The project provides support in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment (WE) and combating violence against women (VAW) and domestic violence (DV) by increasing knowledge, enhancing inter-agency co-operation line with European standards and best practices. The project's long-term impact expectation is that women in Armenia benefit from gender equality and protection against all forms of violence against women.

The project contributes to the Council of Europe’s Action Plan for Armenia for 2023–2024 so that:

  • Armenia is better prepared for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention;
  • the Armenian legal and policy framework on preventing and combating domestic violence is in line with Council of Europe standards;
  • women victims of gender-based violence and domestic violence, including the most disadvantaged, have better access to justice and support services;
  • law enforcement officers, social workers, and other relevant professionals have a better understanding of European standards and gender-sensitive approaches related to the work with victims of domestic violence and gender-based violence;
  • gender equality and women’s empowerment are better promoted and the Armenian legal and policy framework on gender mainstreaming in education are in line with Council of Europe standards.

The project will act in two areas:

PROJECT PUBLICATIONS

  Study “Electronic monitoring in interpersonal violence cases: standards, principles and state practices” ENG/ARM

  Study "Digital dimension on violence against women in Armenia" ENG/ARM

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 1 January 2023 – 31 December 2024

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Back Launch of a new project in Armenia to combat violence against women and promote gender equality

Launch of a new project in Armenia to combat violence against women and promote gender equality

On 21 March 2023, the project “Ending violence against women and promoting gender equality” was officially launched in Yerevan. The project is being implemented under the Council of Europe Action Plan for Armenia 2023-2026 and its partners are the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice of Armenia, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the Human Rights Defender's Office the Republic of Armenia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Investigation Committee of the Republic of Armenia.

During the first Steering Committee meeting, the project team presented the activities that will be implemented across two areas of the project: preventing and combating gender-based violence, including in digital forms and women empowerment.

Alongside project partners, civil society representatives participated in the event. Steering Committee members agreed on the terms of reference of its work and the workplan of the project, discussed activities in detail to create synergies across actors and already existing actions.

The meeting was co-chaired by Martina Schmidt, Head of the Council of Europe office in Armenia and Tatevik Stepanyan, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

Martina Schmidt highlighted in her opening remarks that “together with the national partners of the project, the government and civil society organisations we are on the path to make Armenia a better place to live for thousands of women”.

Tatevik Stepanyan pointed out that this project would help in the implementation of the current Gender Equality Strategy of Armenia and preparation of the next one starting from 2024.

For more information about the project, visit the project web page.

Yerevan 21/03/2023
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The project is implemented by the Capacity Building and Co-operation Projects Unit of the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Division

 Larissa KIREEVA, Project Manager

together with the 
Council of Europe Office in Yerevan

 Liana AMIRBEKYAN, Senior Project Officer
 Eleonora MANUCHARYAN, Project Officer
 Knarik NAZARYAN, Project Assistant