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OSCE Office to hold training on women's rights education in Armenia
YEREVAN 1 July 2004
YEREVAN, 1 July 2004 - In order to support women's rights education and develop their leadership skills, the OSCE Office in Yerevan this week began a 5-day training course for regional trainers.
More than 2000 women have already taken part in seminars prepared and conducted by seventeen trainers since 2002 in nine regions of Armenia. The topics covered by the seminars include human rights, domestic violence and human trafficking. This initiative is funded by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
"The project is one of the few international initiatives that reach outside of Yerevan and aims at enhancing women's participation in public life," said Blanka Hancilova, Democratization Officer with the OSCE Office Yerevan. "Women in Armenia, especially in the regions, find it challenging to take part in the decision making processes of their communities. Our program should give them the necessary skills and knowledge".
Other gender-related efforts carried out by the OSCE Office in co-operation with ODIHR focus on gender education in secondary and high schools, integrating gender components into state policies, conducting gender-based analysis of legislation and raising the gender awareness of legislators, civil servants, non-governmental organizations, political parties and the media.
More than 2000 women have already taken part in seminars prepared and conducted by seventeen trainers since 2002 in nine regions of Armenia. The topics covered by the seminars include human rights, domestic violence and human trafficking. This initiative is funded by the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
"The project is one of the few international initiatives that reach outside of Yerevan and aims at enhancing women's participation in public life," said Blanka Hancilova, Democratization Officer with the OSCE Office Yerevan. "Women in Armenia, especially in the regions, find it challenging to take part in the decision making processes of their communities. Our program should give them the necessary skills and knowledge".
Other gender-related efforts carried out by the OSCE Office in co-operation with ODIHR focus on gender education in secondary and high schools, integrating gender components into state policies, conducting gender-based analysis of legislation and raising the gender awareness of legislators, civil servants, non-governmental organizations, political parties and the media.