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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.
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; stage director and art critic Kasbar Ipegian; as well as Garabed ...
The oldest extant Armenian carpet from the region, referred to as Artsakh during the medieval era, is from the village of Banants (near Gandzak) and dates to the early 13th century. [16] The first time that the Armenian word for pile carpets, gorg , was used in historical sources was in a 1242-1243 Armenian inscription on the wall of the ...
In April 2019, Martirosyan made a speech to the National Assembly of Armenia, making her the first out transgender woman to do so. [5] In her speech, she described the violence and discrimination faced by the trans community in Armenia, saying that they were left "unemployed, poor and morally abandoned," and talked about the influence of the LGBT+ community in the 2018 Armenian revolution in ...
Right Side NGO was founded on 25 January 2016 by Lilit Martirosyan, an Armenian LGBTQ+ rights activist. [5] [6] [3] [7] The organization seeks to promote human rights protection for transgender citizens and for transgender sex workers and other sex workers in Armenia.
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.