Armenia
Opinion | Kocharyan’s sexist attack on Pashinyan reflects the misogyny that permeates our politics
When Kocharyan quipped that ‘fortunately’ Pashinyan was not born a girl, even the women who came to his defence relied on sexist framing.
Zaruhi Hovhannisyan
Zaruhi Hovhannisyan is a human rights defender, gender expert, and publicist, whose texts and articles are published in newspapers and analytical magazines in Armenia and abroad. She is a member of the Prison Monitoring Group Armenia, and has conducted training courses on the topics of domestic violence and discrimination against women at the invitation of reputable international organisations. For her civic activities, she has received the Amalya Kostanyan Award, Young Women's Peace in the Caucasus Award, and Moth Political Art Award.
Armenia
Opinion | Armenia’s womanly face of war
‘Women for Peace’ dressed in military fatigues and shooting Kalashnikov rifles? This contradiction reveals the extent to which a militarist ideology has transformed Armenia — even peace and gender equality have now become fundamentally military matters. Recent photos of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s wife, Anna Hakobyan, in military uniform and with a Kalashnikov rifle in her hands, took Armenian social media by storm. In a country where masculinity is entangled with the military, a woman wi
