2007 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY ESSAY CONTEST AWARDING CEREMONY TO TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 12

ArmRadio.am
11.04.2007 10:15

The 2007 International Women’s Day Essay Contest announcing and
awarding ceremony will take place on 12 April in Yerevan. The event is
organized by the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the Centre for the Development
of Civil Society in co-operation with the US Peace Corps.

The competition commenced on March 8, the International Women’s Day,
and finished on April 7, Motherhood and Beauty Day in Armenia. The
high school students from 8 regions of Armenia participating in the
contest were to answer to the following questions:

1) What is the role of your mother at home, in the community, in
Armenia and her activities?

2) Do you want to change the role of a young Armenian woman in Armenia?

3) If you believe that the role of the woman will change, what changes
would you like to see (personally, at the community and governmental
level)?

Sven Holdar, Democratization Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan,
Patrick Hart, Country Director of the Peace Corps Armenia and Svetlana
Aslanyan, President of the Centre for the Development of Civil Society
will present awards and certificates to 3 national and 24 regional
winners of the competition.

Tamara Gevorgyan, Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Issues and
Nora Hakobyan, President of the Women’s Republican Council, will also
welcome the participants.