 Women's Rights Center (WRC) is a non-governmental, non-profit, non-partisan organization operating in Armenia. It is a voluntary union of people that have joined their efforts for the sake of accomplishing their shared goals to prevent violence against women (VAW) and their children, to protect women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights (RSHR) as well as to support women's leadership.
The main elements of the organizational structure are General Assembly, Advisory and Executive Boards, the staff and interns. Today WRC has its representatives and group of activists in all regional cities of Armenia. The number of staff and interns of the organization throughout Armenia amounts to 98.
Mission
To promote and support the democratic changes in Armenia raising women's role in social, economic, cultural and political life, to change the mentality and the attitude of the society towards women's problems, to protect women's rights and gender equality, to reduce the rate of violence against women and their children through Advocacy and Lobbying, Trainings, Seminars and Conferences, Consulting and Services, Investigation, Research and Publications, Outreach and Education Porgram, Cultural and Business Initiative.
Vision
Perhaps, the most pervasive human rights violation that we know is domestic violence:it devastates lives, fractures communities and stalls development. Armenia is not an exception among other countries of the world, where domestic violence exists in all forms. That’s why our organization’s vision is to see Armenia being a democratic country free from any kind of violence including domestic violence, where the women’s rights are respected as human rights, where women are independent, safe, protected and economically strong.
We are sure that our women and their children should be free from violence and fear, full of hope for their future, surrounded by attention and love of our government, which supports them in all spheres of their lives. We also see an adopted powerful domestic violence law, which will protect our women even in case of occurrence of violence.
Main goals:
• To prevent violence against women and children;
• To protect women and children from violation of their right to be free from violence;
• To support improvement of mechanisms of persecution for violence against women;
• To protect women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights.
Strategy
Since 1997 Women's Rights Center has been involved in the problem of VAW carrying out its activities in 2 main areas: Domestic Violence Against Women and Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights. To achieve its goals WRC has worked out a long-term program "Breaking the Silence About Violence Against Women”, which is realized step by step.
Advisory Board
WRC has established Advisory Board, the aim of which is to support the activity of the Center in the sphere of prevention, protection and prosecution of violence against women and children, particularly, domestic violence against women. It is a consultative body of the organization. The members of the Board are representatives of governmental and non-governmental structures as well as specialists dealing with women's issues.
Executive Board
The Executive Board is a decision-making body of the organization and consists of WRC staff. The aim of the creation of the Board is to promote organization's activities and consider new possibilities of organization's development.
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