The Lives of Nannies, or Working Without Rights The nanny profession can be described in many ways: informal work, care work, and domestic work. Globally, women perform these jobs. Child care, like many jobs that women do, never acquired professional recognition and remains disrespected and degraded to this day.
The Power of Knowing – How Knowledge Reproduces Inequality: A Glance from Armenia to Europe Eventually, the day will come when you realize that cooking dinner and cleaning the house are not all that the future has to offer you
Exhibition BAUHAUS WOMEN On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Bauhaus art school in Weimar, Germany, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Tbilisi Office in cooperation with the Goethe Center Yerevan initiated the exhibition BAUHAUS WOMEN in Tbilisi and Yerevan.
Why LGBT People Emigrate from Armenia: Three Stories Portraits Between 2011 and 2013 alone 5,891 LGBT people left Armenia. This article will tell the first-hand story of lesbian, bisexual and transgender Armenian citizens who have moved to different EU countries. By Arthur Minasyan
Homophobic Politics or Political Homophobia On May 3, 2017, the Heinrich Boell Foundation, in cooperation with the Women's Initiatives Supporting Group & the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center held public discussions "Homophobic Politics or Political Homophobia".
Comprehensive Long-Term Advocacy Strategy Document for LGBTI Rights Presented at CSO Forum in Tbilisi On March 10 the hbs South Caucasus in cooperation with WISG and EMC held a CSO Forum with the participation of civil society organisations and media representatives, where the project partners presented a long-term advocacy strategy document to combat homo/bi/transphobia in Georgia.
50 Women from Georgia In Georgia, there are many women who have created new things, who made discoveries, who brought about change and weren't afraid of alterations.
Situation of LGBT (Lesbi, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) people in South Caucasus, 2012 2012 was a special year in terms of publicity of LGBT (Lesbi, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community and LGBT movement in all three South Caucasian countries. Several important steps have been made towards raising acute issues about sexual identity, differences/diversity and social constructs in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. By Nino Lejava
LGBT Rights in the South Caucasus Wars, state failure, social and economic problems – for more than one decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, the three states of the South Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan were faced with existential challenges. With the consolidation of state structures, the at least transitional freezing of territorial conflicts, and the strengthening of ties with Western Europe, attention to the rights of sexual minorities also increased. By Silvia Stöber
Between Appearance and Reality in Baku: LGBT Rights in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan’s capital Baku was ready when the Eurovision Song Contest took place there at the end of May 2012. All guests were welcome. “Baku was very open and liberal,” Stern.de journalist Jens Maier describes the atmosphere. “A gay club was opened. I do not know of any cases in which problems arose or people felt threatened.” Two openly gay activists, Elham Bagirov and Kamran Rzayev, also remember the excitement of this occasion. By Silvia Stöber