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November 25. A protest march in memory of Zaruhi Petrosyan, the 20-year-old woman, who died as a result of domestic violence. (12.11.2010)

On November 25, the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Women in Armenia consisting of 7 non-governmental organizations (Women's Rights Center NGO, Society Without Violence NGO, Tufenkian Foundation's Women's Support Center, PINK Armenia NGO, Zangakatun NGO and Sexual Assault Crisis Center) will be organizing a protest march in memory of Zaruhi Petrosyan, the 20-year-old woman, who died as a result of domestic violence on October 01, 2010, at the hands of her husband and mother-in-law.

Women's Rights Center periodically organizes meetings with the staff of different organizations, medical institutions, polyclinics, libraries, universities, schools and other institutions for raising public awareness on the issue of domestic violence against women.

On 05 November of current year, the reply to the petition signed by over 3.000 individuals calling for justice to the death of Zaruhi Petrosyan, received from RA Police, which states that RA Prime Minister has received it and directed to the Investigation Service of the RA Ministry of Defense for further examination of the case.

On October 29, 2010, with the aim of creation Coalition on Zaruhi Petrosyan’s case, representatives of 6 non-governmental organizations dealing with domestic violence issues gathered under the roof of Women’s Rights Center to discuss the further steps to reveal the circumstances of Zaruhi Petrosyan’s suspicious death.

On October 22, 2010 the training on “Project Cycle: Project Planning and Management” has been conducted for WRC staff by Albina Shuyska, the Project Management Expert, at Women’s Rights Center.

Albina was invited by “Kvinna till Kvinna” (KTK) organization to Caucasus to held trainings for partner organizations in order to develop certain knowledge on project cycle, proposal writing and logframe in order to present the ideas in the appropriate form to the relevant bodies.

On 20 October. 2010 the press conference on domestic violence issueswas hold in "Pastark" press club. The speakers were the director of Women's Rights Center - Mrs. Susanna Vardanyan and WRC lawyers - Satine Gevorgyan and Diana Israelyan.

In the course of the press conference a number of questions raised and provoked discussions on the following topics:

In September 29, 2010, Women's Rights Center and "Forum" theatre have organized an interactive performance called "Pages from the dog's diary" in Yeghegnadzor city.The performance was based on true stories of women-victims subjected to domestic violence and it expressed the current importance of that issue.

On 18, 19 of September the trainings on "Manual of Domestic Violence" were conducted by WRC specialists for police servants from Police Academy staff. Potential trainers on Manual were participated in the trainings as well.

Another trainings on "Manual of Domestic Violence" organized by WRC took place from 22th to 23th of September, 2010 for police servants of Police Training Center. The participants of trainings included the trainers from the Police Training Center and police servants of various Police Departments. The format of the trainings was similar to the trainings organized in Police Academy.

After the activation of the regular 24-hourstoll-free hotline 0-800-80-850 Women's Rights Center organized a street actionin August, 26, in which the whole WRC staff took part. Women- passers werehanded out plastic bags, where National Hot Line numbers were written. Allwomen-victims who are being subjected to domestic violence can call and beprovided with free psychological and legal counseling.

WRC presented an offer to RA Police Academy to include "Domestic violence" subject in their curriculum and to organize relevant trainings for their specialists basing on "Domestic violence" manual elaborated by WRC and on August 05, 2010 got their accordance.

In August 01, 2010, Women’s Rights Center has organized an interactive performance called “Pages from the dog’s diary” in Vanadzor city of Lori Region.The performance was based on true stories of women-victims subjected to domestic violence and it expressed the current importance of that issue.

WRC has elaborated a Training Manual on Domestic Violence for police servants, which observes the current situation of domestic violence issue in Armenia, its types, main consequences, specificities, reasons and the methods of prevention as well as it clarifies the role and interference of police servants in given situation. This manual is a tool for advocating and for raising awareness on domestic violence against women.

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