The Sexual Violence Crisis Center is guided by the mission of combating gender-based violence, protecting the rights of survivors of sexual violence, and raising public awareness. Our goals include advocating for legislative reforms, ensuring legal, social, and psychological support for survivors, and challenging the prevalence of rape culture in society.

We work through a feminist, intersectional, and survivor-centered approach, ensuring that survivors can achieve justice, healing, and access to comprehensive support.
Collaboration with the Women’s Fund began in 2023.

“Kanani” Socio-Psychological Center NGO operates in the Shirak region and was founded in 2019. The organization’s vision is to foster a psychologically educated and mentally healthy society. Through psychoeducation, Kanani NGO provides psychological support aimed at developing the potential of individuals facing difficult life situations, as well as the socio-psychological rehabilitation of those encountering professional barriers. The organization’s work aligns with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for all and promoting lifelong learning opportunities; achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls; and promoting sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.

Collaboration with the Women’s Fund began in 2018.

The Women’s Rights House was founded in 2017 in the city of Gyumri, Shirak marz. It is built around the idea of women’s rights and interests by promoting the protection of women’s rights, advocating for public policy change around them, and providing needs-based support.

The mission of the “Center for Legal Initiatives” NGO is to support the establishment of a rule-of-law state where the individual, their dignity, rights, and freedoms are recognized as supreme values. One of the organization’s priorities is to carry out public monitoring and oversight in closed institutions in order to improve the conditions and protect the rights of persons held there. For this purpose, at various times the organization has been involved in the observer groups of penitentiary institutions and psychiatric facilities, within which it has conducted public monitoring of the rights of persons deprived of liberty and persons with mental health issues, including women. It has monitored their working and living conditions, the quality and accessibility of healthcare, socio-psychological services, nutrition, and more. In addition, the organization has implemented a number of programs studying the reintegration challenges of incarcerated women and women beneficiaries of probation, the obstacles to the realization of their rights to work and education, as well as the importance of introducing gender-sensitive policies in the penitentiary and probation systems. These programs have also aimed at empowering incarcerated women and women probation beneficiaries, enhancing their professional and work-related skills, and changing public attitudes toward them.
Collaboration with the Women’s Fund began in 2019.

“Socioscope” NGO was founded in 2008 by three female sociologists-researchers with the aim of supporting the human rights–oriented civil society with research-based knowledge. Over the years, the organization’s mission has been to contribute to the development of contemporary critical social thought in Armenia through research, translations, and educational initiatives. The organization’s studies analyze civil movements and civil society issues in Armenia, human rights and gender issues, women’s rights, the dominant collective knowledge of power, sexuality, culture and nation, as well as questions of war, peace, and the future.

Collaboration with the Women’s Fund began in 2020.

Since January 2020 in Vayots Dzor, and since January 2022 also in Ararat region, the organization has been implementing the “Support Centers for Survivors of Domestic Violence” program, delegated by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. The mission of “You Are Not Alone” Women’s Support NGO is to build healthy families and a healthy society. The organization’s goals are to protect the rights and legitimate interests of women and children subjected to domestic violence, raise public awareness about the issue of domestic violence, initiate and implement preventive measures in this area, contribute to the elimination of domestic violence, and provide women and children—particularly from vulnerable groups of society—with legal, economic, political, cultural, and other types of information.

Collaboration with the Women’s Fund began in 2018.