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Armenia’s Yazidi boys and girls who don’t finish school

7 December 2017 by Gayane Mkrtchyan

Fourth grade students (Gayane Mkrtchyan /OC Media)

In the Yazidi villages in the west of Armenia, many girls and boys don’t finish school. For girls, it’s ‘a great tragedy’ to be unwed by 18, while the boys must go to work. But there are some in the community chal­leng­ing the stereo­types, hoping to build a better world for future gen­er­a­tions.

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Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: Armenia, early marriages, education, ferik, rya taza, school, yazidis

The young women fleeing forced marriage in Azerbaijan

12 September 2017 by Bahruz Samadov

(Sitara Ibrahi­mo­va)

Child marriage and forced marriage in Azer­bai­jan leave some young women with an impos­si­ble choice: family or freedom. In spite of pressure from family, the police, and schools, some unwilling brides-to-be still decide to run away. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gender, Top Tagged With: Azerbaijan, discrimination, early marriages, feminism, forced marriages, women, women of azerbaijan, women's rights

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

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Opinion | Accepting our past is the only way we can move forward

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In Azer­bai­jan, as in Armenia, remem­brance of the victims of past atroc­i­ties often takes on a one-sided nature.

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