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Kinbazhin (Armenian: Կինբաժին), was a women's organization in Armenia, founded in 1920. It was the Armenian chapter of the Zhenotdel, and had the task to introduce the new role of women in Armenian SSR. [1] While it did not fully achieve the ideal Communist society, it did achieve a revolutionary change in the life of women in Armenia.
Its most progressive elements seem to have never been applied in society at large, and in the 18th and 19th centuries both outsider and insider reports overwhelmingly commented on the low status of women in traditional Armenian society. [citation needed] Armenian families were traditionally patrilocal, labor in the house was divided based on ...
In 1939 the organization launched its official publication the ARS Quarterly, which later became Hye Sird, and officially changed its name to the Armenian Relief Society. The relatively stable and self-sufficient state of Armenian communities, achieved during the third decade of the ARS, was again shaken, this time by the outbreak of the Second ...
The Hamazkayin ('All-National') Publishing and Cultural Society was founded on May 28, 1928, in Cairo, Egypt, by a group of nine Armenian intellectuals, including the writer and educator Levon Shant; historian, critic, and first minister of education of Armenia, Nigol Aghbalian; former prime minister of Armenia Hamo Ohanjanyan; revolutionary and militant Sophie Areshian, [1] stage director and ...
Members of the Eastern Partnership. The main goal of the EuFoA is to strengthen ties between the EU and Armenia. [1] The EuFoA coordinates activities between the European Parliament, civil societies, associations and NGO's, as well as the Armenian diaspora and political organizations across Europe.
Logo of the Near East Foundation. The Near East Foundation (NEF) had its genesis in a number of earlier organizations.As the scope of relief expanded from aid to Greek, Armenian and Assyrian victims of the Ottoman Empire to post-World War I relief in the region, the names and mission changed.
Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Chmshgatsak (Çemişgezek), in the Ottoman Empire's province of Mamuret-ül Aziz.She witnessed the deaths of her family members and was forced to march over 1,400 mi (2,300 km), during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia.
The World Armenian Congress was founded in October 2003 as a union for Armenian NGO's, and has since reached an international status. The WAC headquarters are located in Yerevan . A youth branch of the organization, known as the "WAC Association of Youth Organizations", was founded in 2006.