NAGHDALYAN WILL MAKE A REPORT ABOUT POVERTY OF WOMEN
Karine Asatryan

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[01:33 pm] 28 June, 2006

The issue about the situation of women in Armenia will probably
be heard in the next PACE session. But it will be represented not
separately, but as part of the report discussing the situation of
women in South Caucasus. According to Hermine Naghdalyan, member of
the Armenian delegation to PACE, in this connection the situation is
not very different in the three South Caucasian countries.

Slight progress can be noted in Georgia. As for Armenia and Azerbaijan,
few women participate in making decisions and few women are engaged
in small and medium business. Mrs. Naghdalyan finds it important
that there is a national program about the situation of women in
Armenia. This is important in the context of the PACE report on the
poverty of women in the CoE member-countries which is to be made soon.

Hermine Naghdalyan has been appointed reporter on the theme.

By the way, on the initiative of the PACE Committee on gender equality,
a day is dedicated to women in the CoE. On this day the members of the
Committee meet women who have launched successful activity in social
and political life and "try to understand the secret of their success
in order to advocate the experience so that more women can follow the
same path", Hermine Naghdalyan says. The third meeting of women within
the framework of the PACE took place late in the evening yesterday.