NEWS

This year’s International Day of Families highlights the need for work-family balance.  The aim is to help workers everywhere provide for their families financially and emotionally, while also contributing to the socio-economic development of their societies.

Human rights activists, authorities and representatives of the international community discussed the situation of sexual minorities’ rights in Armenia today.

Joint message of Dr. BabatundeOsotomehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, and Agneta S. Bridges, Secretary General, ICM, International Confederation of Midwives.

On April 30, the National Statistical Service and the Ministry of Health of Armenia presented the main findings of the 2010 Armenia Demographic and Health Survey (ADHS).

More than 100 young people learned more about tolerance and homophobia and increased their knowledge about the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)people.

UN staff, government officials, civil society, and international community representatives participated at an opening ceremony of an art exhibition dedicated to International Mother Earth Day which opened today in the UN House.

A new feature-length documentary film - the first to include footage filmed in every country on earth captured all on the same day, and created with the help of the United Nations and an international community of filmmakers - was screened on Earth Day, 22 April 2012, in “Envoy” Hostel in Yerevan.

Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia, and Dr. Jatinder Cheema, USAID/Armenia Mission Director, visited the town of Ararat on April 20 to tour the waste collecting and recycling activities.

Students of the Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University will have access to more information on UN values and UN work in Armenia, since a UN Corner was launched today in the library of the university.

Armenian youth learned more about usage of Chinese Language at the United Nations and about multilingualism at the UN during the celebration of the Day of the Chinese Language at the UN, which was conducted today.

An art exhibition which promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment and is dedicated to the National Motherhood Day was opened today in the UN House.

Students’ art exhibition aimed to raise public awareness on the protection of birds and biodiversity, which was dedicated to the Bird Day and the UN Decade of Biodiversity was opened today.

Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident Coordinator urges the Armenians to join people of the planet and to turn off non-essential lights on Saturday night, 31 March at 8:30 pm to observe Earth Hour.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Armenia and the National Competitiveness Foundation of Armenia (NCFA), within the framework of their mandate and missions, largely contribute to the sustainable development and enhancement of national competitiveness in Armenia.

Today, an international conference on “Partnership for Social Housing” took place at Ani Plaza Hotel, at the joint initiative of the National Social Housing Association (ASBA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Armenia.